Land cover classification in an era of big and open data: Optimizing localized implementation and training data selection to improve mapping outcomes

Training Data Selection for Annual Land Cover Classification for the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Initiative

(2020) Qiang Zhou et al.   Remote Sensing

Continental-scale land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery

(2020) Douglas K. Bolton et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Interpretation and use of geomorphometry in remote sensing: a guide and review of integrated applications

(2020) Steven E. Franklin   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Addressing the need for improved land cover map products for policy support

(2020) Zoltan Szantoi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Change in forest condition: Characterizing non-stand replacing disturbances using time series satellite imagery

(2020) Nicholas C. Coops et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Validation of ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights in boreal forests

(2020) Amy Neuenschwander et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Gaining prediction accuracy in land use modeling by integrating modeled hydrologic variables

(2019) Paul D. Wagner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products

(2019) Stephen V. Stehman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Lessons learned implementing an operational continuous United States national land change monitoring capability: The Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) approach

(2019) Jesslyn F. Brown et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite – 2 mission: A global geolocated photon product derived from the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System

(2019) Thomas A. Neumann et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Prevalence of multiple forest disturbances and impact on vegetation regrowth from interannual Landsat time series (1985–2015)

(2019) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Auxiliary datasets improve accuracy of object-based land use/land cover classification in heterogeneous savanna landscapes

(2019) P. Hurskainen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Disturbance-Informed Annual Land Cover Classification Maps of Canada's Forested Ecosystems for a 29-Year Landsat Time Series

(2018) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Land cover 2.0

(2018) Michael A. Wulder et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Remote sensing and forest inventories in Nordic countries – roadmap for the future

(2018) Annika Kangas et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Disturbance-Informed Annual Land Cover Classification Maps of Canada's Forested Ecosystems for a 29-Year Landsat Time Series

(2018) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

(2018) Giuseppe Amatulli et al.   Scientific Data

Land-cover mapping using Random Forest classification and incorporating NDVI time-series and texture: a case study of central Shandong

(2018) Yuhao Jin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A new generation of the United States National Land Cover Database: Requirements, research priorities, design, and implementation strategies

(2018) Limin Yang et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data set

(2018) Martin Claverie et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A National Assessment of Wetland Status and Trends for Canada’s Forested Ecosystems Using 33 Years of Earth Observation Satellite Data

(2018) Michael Wulder et al.   Remote Sensing

Comparison of Office and Field Techniques for Validating Landscape Change Classification in Pacific Northwest National Parks

(2018) Catharine Copass et al.   Remote Sensing

The ATL08 land and vegetation product for the ICESat-2 Mission

(2018) Amy Neuenschwander et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Updating Landsat time series of surface-reflectance composites and forest change products with new observations

(2017) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Comprehensive survey of deep learning in remote sensing: theories, tools, and challenges for the community

(2017) John E. Ball et al.   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

A nationwide annual characterization of 25 years of forest disturbance and recovery for Canada using Landsat time series

(2017) Joanne C. White et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Using the 500 m MODIS land cover product to derive a consistent continental scale 30 m Landsat land cover classification

(2017) Hankui K. Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Characterizing streams and riparian areas with airborne laser scanning data

(2017) Piotr Tompalski et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

(2017) Thorsten Markus et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Operational High Resolution Land Cover Map Production at the Country Scale Using Satellite Image Time Series

(2017) Jordi Inglada et al.   Remote Sensing

A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

(2017) Steffen Fritz et al.   Scientific Data

Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

(2016) Joanne C. White et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Improving the Consistency of Multitemporal Land Cover Maps Using a Hidden Markov Model

(2016) S. Parker Abercrombie et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges

(2016) Chaowei Yang et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Mass data processing of time series Landsat imagery: pixels to data products for forest monitoring

(2016) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Optimizing selection of training and auxiliary data for operational land cover classification for the LCMAP initiative

(2016) Zhe Zhu et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Optical remotely sensed time series data for land cover classification: A review

(2016) Cristina Gómez et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Random forest in remote sensing: A review of applications and future directions

(2016) Mariana Belgiu et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The global Landsat archive: Status, consolidation, and direction

(2016) Michael A. Wulder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Rapid Land Cover Map Updates Using Change Detection and Robust Random Forest Classifiers

(2016) Konrad Wessels et al.   Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Technologies for Enhancing Forest Inventories: A Review

(2016) Joanne C. White et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

The Sensitivity of Mapping Methods to Reference Data Quality: Training Supervised Image Classifications with Imperfect Reference Data

(2016) Giles Foody et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Exploring issues of training data imbalance and mislabelling on random forest performance for large area land cover classification using the ensemble margin

(2015) Andrew Mellor et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Regional and historical factors supplement current climate in shaping global forest canopy height

(2015) Jian Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Regional detection, characterization, and attribution of annual forest change from 1984 to 2012 using Landsat-derived time-series metrics

(2015) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

An integrated Landsat time series protocol for change detection and generation of annual gap-free surface reflectance composites

(2015) Txomin Hermosilla et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Characterizing residual structure and forest recovery following high-severity fire in the western boreal of Canada using Landsat time-series and airborne lidar data

(2015) Douglas K. Bolton et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Virtual constellations for global terrestrial monitoring

(2015) Michael A. Wulder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Pixel-Based Image Compositing for Large-Area Dense Time Series Applications and Science

(2014) J. C. White et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A best practices guide for generating forest inventory attributes from airborne laser scanning data using an area-based approach

(2014) Joanne C. White et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Satellites: Make Earth observations open access

(2014) Michael A. Wulder et al.   NATURE

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

(2014) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Automated Training Sample Extraction for Global Land Cover Mapping

(2014) Julien Radoux et al.   Remote Sensing

Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error

(2013) Joseph O. Sexton et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

A land cover map of Latin America and the Caribbean in the framework of the SERENA project

(2013) Paula D. Blanco et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery

(2013) Gudina L. Feyisa et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Lidar plots — a new large-area data collection option: context, concepts, and case study

(2012) Michael A. Wulder et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges

(2012) John R. Townshend et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Geo-Wiki: An online platform for improving global land cover

(2011) Steffen Fritz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

An assessment of the effectiveness of a random forest classifier for land-cover classification

(2011) V.F. Rodriguez-Galiano et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Land cover classification with coarse spatial resolution data to derive continuous and discrete maps for complex regions

(2011) R.R. Colditz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spatiotemporal exploratory models for broad-scale survey data

(2010) Daniel Fink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Detecting trends in forest disturbance and recovery using yearly Landsat time series: 1. LandTrendr — Temporal segmentation algorithms

(2010) Robert E. Kennedy et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Quantification of live aboveground forest biomass dynamics with Landsat time-series and field inventory data: A comparison of empirical modeling approaches

(2010) Scott L. Powell et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Hierarchical mapping of Northern Eurasian land cover using MODIS data

(2010) Damien Sulla-Menashe et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Supporting large-area, sample-based forest inventories with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery

(2009) Michael J. Falkowski et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Updating the 2001 National Land Cover Database land cover classification to 2006 by using Landsat imagery change detection methods

(2009) George Xian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT