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Title: | User-Relevant Land Cover Products for Informed Decision-Making in the Complex Terrain of the Peruvian Andes | Authors: | Mantas, Vasco Caro, Claudia |
Keywords: | land use and land cover; surface water mapping; Copernicus Sentinel; ecosystem services; random forest | Issue Date: | 2023 | Publisher: | MDPI | Project: | e-Andes Project Monitoring of High Andean Ecosystems from Space, which was sponsored by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica: PROCIENCIA contrato 186-2020-FONDECYT UIDB/00611/2020 UIDP/00611/2020 |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Remote Sensing | Volume: | 15 | Issue: | 13 | Abstract: | Land cover in mountainous regions is shaped by a complex web of stressors arising from natural and anthropogenic processes. The co-design process implemented with regional stakeholders in this study highlighted persistent data gaps and the need for locally relevant (thematic, spatial, and temporal) data products, which global alternatives still fail to deliver. This study describes the development of a land cover database designed for the Junín National Reserve (JNR) in Peru as a precursor of a broader effort designed to serve Andean wetland ecosystems. The products were created using Random Forest models leveraging Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data and trained using a large database of in situ data enhanced by the use of high-resolution commercial imagery (Planet). The land cover basemap includes eight classes (two of vegetation) with an overall accuracy of 0.9 and Cohen’s Kappa of 0.93. A second product further subdivided vegetation into locally meaningful vegetation classes, for a total of four types (overall accuracy of 0.85). Finally, a surface water product (snapshot and frequency) delivered a representation of the highly variable water extent around Lake Junín. It was the result of a model incorporating 150 Sentinel-1 images from 2016 to 2021 (an overall accuracy of 0.91). The products were successfully employed in identifying 133 ecosystem services provided by the different land cover classes existing in the JNR. The study highlights the value of participatory monitoring and open-data sharing for enhanced stewardship of social-ecological systems. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/112578 | ISSN: | 2072-4292 | DOI: | 10.3390/rs15133303 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FCTUC Ciências da Terra - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D CITEUC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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