Increasing the accuracy of vegetation classification using geology and DEM

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Domaç, Ayşegül

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The difficulty of gathering information on field and coarse resolution of Landsat images forced to use ancillary data in vegetation mapping. The aim of this study is to increase the accuracy of species level vegetation classification incorporating environmental variables in the Amanos region. In the first part of the study, coarse vegetation classification is attained by using maximum likelihood method with the help of forest management maps. Canonical Correspondence analysis is used to explore the relationships among the environmental variables and vegetation classes. Discriminant Analysis is used in the second part of the study in two different stages. Firstly Fisher̕s linear equations for each of the previously defined nine groups calculated and the pixels are included in one of these groups by looking at the probability of that pixel being in that group. In the second stage Distance raster value of maximum likelihood classification is used. Distance raster pixels having a value less than one is accepted as misclassified and replaced with a value of first stage result of that pixel. As a result of this study 19.6 % increase in the overall accuracy is obtained by using the relationships between environmental variables and vegetation distribution.

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Environmental sciences.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605683/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14791

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Domaç, “Increasing the accuracy of vegetation classification using geology and DEM,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.