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Application of High-Precision Classification Method Based on Spatiotemporal Stable Samples and Land Use Policy in Oasis–Desert Mosaic Landscape Areas

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Land cover products are essential tools in environmental and ecological research. However, limited attention has been paid to their data quality issues. Many existing products suffer from pronounced spatiotemporal inconsistencies, characterized by frequent and repetitive classification fluctuations in specific regions and years, which substantially compromise the accuracy of analyses and models that rely on them. To address these challenges, this study introduces a method for deriving spatiotemporally stable samples to support high-precision land cover classification. The approach integrates national and regional land-use policies to assess temporal stability and incorporates advanced time-series processing techniques together with innovative vegetation indices to facilitate effective sample reuse. Experimental results show that this method markedly improves classification accuracy across vegetation types and reduces the extent of areas prone to frequent land-cover changes by 22.64%. Compared with existing products of similar spatial resolution, our approach achieves an overall classification accuracy of 91.1%, providing stable, high-quality input data that underpin precise and reliable regional-scale environmental and ecological modeling.

Source: Remote Sensing

DOI: 10.3390/rs17233859

Authors: Jinghan Wang, Yuefei Zhou, Miaohang Zhou, Zengjing Song, Xiangyu Ji, Xujun Han

Institutions: Southwest University, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente

Language: English

Topic: Remote-Sensing Image Classification

Subfield: Media Technology

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,258