Mapping Land Cover and Tree Canopy Cover in Zagros Forests of Iran: Application of Sentinel-2, Google Earth, and Field Data

Mapping Land Cover and Tree Canopy Cover in Zagros Forests of Iran: Application of Sentinel-2, Google Earth, and Field Data

The Zagros forests in Western Iran are valuable ecosystems that have been seriously damaged by human interference (harvesting the wood and forest sub-products, converting the forests to the agricultural lands, and grazing) and natural events (drought events and fire). In this study, we generated acc...

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Main Authors: Saeedeh Eskandari, Mohammad Reza Jaafari, Patricia Oliva, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Thomas Blaschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
land cover (LC) map
tree canopy cover percentage (TCC%) map
Sentinel-2
Google Earth
supervised classification
NDVI
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/12/1912

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