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Exploratory Analysis of Openstreetmap For Land Use Classification
Exploratory Analysis of Openstreetmap For Land Use Classification
use classification
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21st International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013)
November 5 - 8, 2013 — Orlando, Florida, USA
• Assumptions:
– We assume the time difference between CLC and OSM
databases (2006 for CLC and 2013 for OSM) would not
represent a major issue, Considering a yearly average change
value of land cover in Europe of 0.23%
Classification accuracy
Classification
Class
accuracy (%)
1 84.3%
2 46.6%
3 83.5%
4 1.2%
5 99.5%
Global 76.7%
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5. OSM spatial distribution
Spatial distribution of
OSM classified areas
over continental
Portugal
Distribution of classes’
coverage areas by
continental
Portuguese districts
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Conclusions
• Tentative to relate OSM and CLC
• Determined the accuracy of classification of OSM
polygon features based on CLC level 1 classes
• Analyzed OSM spatial distribution
• Results show that might be worth to study OSM with the
more detailed CLC levels 1 and 2
• Classification accuracy of 76.7% (23.3% need further
investigation):
– Not all the classes have similar accuracy
– We believe that it might be used, for instance, as another source
of ground truth data in the validation process of LULC databases
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Conclusions (2)
• Further investigation needed:
– Correspondence between OSM and the 3 levels of CLC
– Ways to avoid “not_known” class and classes without
description
– The cause of discrepancies between both classifications (errors
or just different views?)
– Understand the real effect of conflicting overlapping areas
(1.39%) (level of contributors trust to decide which one is
correct?)
2nd International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information (GEOCROWD) 2013
21st International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013)
November 5 - 8, 2013 — Orlando, Florida, USA