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Tanintharyi Region Land Cover - March 2016 (Improved)
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Abstract

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This dataset is the result of a land cover analysis for Myanmar's Tanintharyi Region based on March, 2016 Landsat 8 OLI imagery. The primary purpose of the study was to map natural forest for each of four ecological forest types (Mangrove, Mixed Deciduous, Lowland Evergreen, Upland Evergreen). A number of other land use/land cover types are also included in the dataset, including hum...

Revision Date
Dec. 13, 2016, 12:43 a.m.
Type
Raster Data
Keywords
tanintharyi
Owner
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Maintenance Frequency
There Are No Plans To Update The Data
Restrictions
You are free: - To Share: To copy, distribute and use the database. - To Create: To produce works from the database. - To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database. As long as you: - Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database. Citation: Connette, G., P. Oswald, M. Songer, and P. Leimgruber. 2016. Mapping distinct forest types improves overall forest identification based on multi-spectral Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing 8: 882.
Edition
Manually Improved
Purpose

Land Cover Classification:
1 - Water (ocean, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, flooded areas)
2 - Degraded Mangrove Forest (mangrove cover <80%; evi...

Language
English
Data Quality
Mean per-class producer's accuracy estimated at 76.8% based on validation dataset. Forest/non-forest accuracy estimated at 95.5%. See original publication for further details. This REVISED version of the dataset incorporates a number of manual edits with unknown effects on map accuracy.
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Spatial Representation Type
grid data is used to represent geographic data
Attribute Name Label Description Range Average Median Standard Deviation
GRAY_INDEX NA

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