GLC 2000 Land Cover Database of North America: Workshop GLC 2000 "Final Results"

GLC 2000
Land Cover Database of North America

Workshop GLC 2000 “Final Results”
Ispra, Italy 21-24/03/2003
Rasim.Latifovic@NRCan.gc.ca
Applications Division
CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING
Natural Resources Canada
Legend conversion table for NVSC (FGDC), LCCS and IGBP
TABLE 1. Conversion table
LCCS Code
LCCS Level NV CS-FGDC IGBP USER_CLASS_NAM E
Tropical or Sub-tropical Broadleaved Evergreen Forest -
20089-O1 / 20089-O2 A 3A10B2XXD1E1-O1 / A3A10B2XXD1E1-O2 1 2 Closed Canopy
Tropical or Sub-tropical Broadleaved Deciduous Forest -
Temperate or Sub-polar Broadleaved Deciduous Forest -
Temperate or Sub-polar Needleleaved Evergreen Forest -
Temperate or Sub-polar Needleleaved Evergreen Forest - Open
20134-1-O5 / 20134-1-O7 A 3A11B2XXD2E1-A12-O5 / A3A11B2XXD2E1-A12-O7 5 1 Canopy
A 3A10B2XXD2E1-O5 / A3A10B2XXD2E2-O5 / Temperate or Sub-polar Needleleaved Mixed Forest - Closed
20092-O5 / 20093-O5 / 20093-O7 A 3A10B2XXD2E2-O7 6 5 Canopy
A 3A10B2XXD1-O5 / A 3A10B2XXD1-O7 / A3A 10B2XXD2- Temperate or Sub-polar Mixed Broadleaved or Needleleaved
20088-O5 / 20088-O7 / 20091-O5 O5 7 5 Forest - Closed Canopy
A 3A11B2XXD1-A12-O5 / A 3A11B2XXD1-A12-O7 / Temperate or Sub-polar Mixed Broaddleleaved or Needleleaved
20130-1-O5 / 20130-1-O7 / 20133-1-O5 A 3A11B2XXD2-A12-O5 8 5 Forest - Open Canopy
Subpolar Needleleaved Evergreen Forest Open Canopy -
21436-05/21436-07 A 8A10-O5 / A 8A 10-O7 20 8 lichen understory
Temperate or Subpolar Broadleaved Evergreen Shrubland -
Temperate or Subpolar Broadleaved Deciduous Shrubland -
20174-1-O5 / 20174-1-O7 A 4A11B3XXD1E2-A12-O5 / A4A11B3XXD1E2-A12-O7 10 6 Open Canopy
Temperate or Subpolar Needleleaved Evergreen Shrubland -
20176-1-O5 / 20176-1-O7 A 4A11B3XXD2E1-A12-O5 / A4A11B3XXD2E1-A12-O7 11 7 Open Canopy
A 4A11B3XXD1-A12B10-O5 / A 4A 11B3XXD1-A 12B10-O7 Temperate or Sub-polar Mixed Broadleaved and Needleleaved
20172-2-O5 / 20172-2-O7 / 20175-2-O5 / A4A11B3XXD2-A12B10-O5 12 7 Dw arf -Shrubland - Open Canopy
20033-05/20033-07 A 6A10-05/A6A10-07 13 10 Temperate or Subpolar Grassland
20033-05/20033-07/20052-9032 A 6A10-05/A6A10-07/A3A 14-A 16 14 8 Temperate or Subpolar Grassland w ith a Sparse Tree Layer
20033-05/20033-07/20055-9032 A 6A10-05/A6A10-07/A4A 14-A 16 15 8 Temperate or Subpolar Grassland w ith a Sparse Shrub Layer
20033-08/20055-9032 A 6A10-08/A4A14-A16 16 16 Polar Grassland w ith a Sparse Shrub Layer
20033-08/20056-9033 A 6A10-08/A4A14B3-A16B10 17 16 Polar Grassland w ith a Dw arf -Sparse Shrub Layer
10025 A3 18 12 Cropland
10025/20055 A 3/A4A14 19 12 Cropland and Shrubland/w oodland
Unconsolidated Material Sparse Vegetation (old burnt or other
6004/20055 A 2/A4A14 21 7 disturbance)
5001 A1 22 13 Urban and Built-up
8001/6004 A 1/A2 23 17 Consolidated Rock Sparse Vegetation
8001 A1 24 17 Water bodies
6004 25 16 Burnt area (resent burnt area)
8005/8008 A 2/A3 26 15 Snow and Ice
40007 A 3/A13 27 11 Wetlands
40019 A 2/A13 28 16 Herbaceous Wetlands
Accuracy assessment: Building confidence
R:NIR; G:SWIR; B:RED Classification
Landsat
Quantitative accuracy assessment
Reference data
Source:
Centre de foresterie des Laurentides
Service canadien des forêts
Assessment of reference data
Distribution of homogeneity in 1km pixel over Canada
2.50%
2.00%
1.50%
1.00%
0.50%
0.00%
16 26 36 46 56 66 76 86 96
Dominant fraction in 1km pixel
GLC 2000 IGBP
100% 100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
Accuracy
Accuracy
40% 40%
20% 20%
0% 0%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Dominant Fraction Dominant Fraction
UMd
UMB
100%
100%
80% 80%
60% 60%
Accuracy
Accuracy
40% 40%
20% 20%
0%
0%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Dominant Fraction Dominant Fraction
100%
90%
-0.1164
y = 1.4156x
2
R = 0.9753
80%
Dominant fraction
70%
60%
50%
40%
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850 900 950 100
0
Resolution (m)
Areal comparison
GLC 2000 NA IGBP UMB UMD
Forest classes 45.68% 48.06% 42.23% 53.95%
Evergreen Needleleaf Fores t 22.45% 17.45% 14.38% 10.27%
Evergreen Broadleaf Fores t 3.50% 2.64% 4.89% 2.54%
Deciduous Needleleaf Fores t 0.00% 0.00% 0.10% 0.00%
Deciduous Broadleaf Fores t 5.38% 7.38% 4.47% 4.18%
Mixed Fores t 5.50% 13.04% 10.36% 5.55%
Woody Savannas 8.85% 7.55% 8.03% 31.41%
Non-forest classes 54.32% 51.94% 57.77% 46.05%

Clos ed Shrublands 1.77% 2.45% 0.80% 7.75%
Open Shrublands 18.25% 11.49% 23.62% 13.42%
Gras s lands 7.75% 8.69% 10.73% 9.80%
Perm anent Wetlands 0.28% 1.46% 0.49% 0.00%
Croplands 14.31% 17.53% 15.74% 9.21%
Urban and Built-Up 0.45% 0.43% 0.41% 0.43%
Snow and Ice 2.93% 1.70% 1.58% 0.00%
Barren or Spars ely Vegetated 8.56% 8.18% 4.41% 5.45%
·The IGBP Global land cover classification produced by U.S. Geological Survey for the International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme IGBP (Loveland et al., 2000);
·The UMd global land cover classification produced by University Maryland (Hansen et al., 2000);
·The UMB MODIS Global land cover classification produced by University Boston (Hodges 2001); and
·GLC2000_NA North America 2000 Land Cover database, here presented
Per pixel comparison
Agreement in depicting the forest area over

North America among analysed land cover
maps
Agreement [%] Kappa
GLC2000_NA - IGBP 78.85% 0.554
GLC2000_NA - UMB 79.03% 0.548
GLC2000_NA - UMD 78.17% 0.491
GLC 2000NA -IGBP
GLC 2000NA -UMD
Agreement
Disagreement non-forest / forest
Disagreement forest / non-forest

GLC 2000NA -UMB
Outputs
Database:
NRCan and USGS (2003) Land Cover Database of North America 2000
ftp://ftp.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ftp/ad/EMS/Landcover2000/
Papers in progress:
Latifovic, R., Zhu, Z., Cihlar,J., Giri, C., and Olthof, I. (2003) Land Cover
Mapping of North America - Global Land Cover 2000
Latifovic, R., Olthof, I., and Fraser R., Assessing the accuracy of remote sensing
based large scaled land cover data
Poster:
CCRS Team USGS Team
Rasim Latifovic Zhi-Liang Zhu
Cihlar Josef Chandra Giri
Jean Beaubien
Ian Olthof
Robert Fraser
Acknowledgements
We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canadian Space Agency

for this study, the Centre national d’etudes spatiales and European Union for
the provision of 2000 VGT data and National Aeronautic and Space
Administration for the provision of some ETM+ scenes as part of Satellite
Information for the Landcover of Canada (SILC) project.

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Land Cover Database of North America

R:NIR; G:SWIR; B:RED Classification

Dominant fraction in 1km pixel

Non-forest classes 54.32% 51.94% 57.77% 46.05%

Agreement in depicting the forest area over

GLC 2000NA -IGBP

GLC 2000NA -UMD

Disagreement forest / non-forest

We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canadian Space Agency

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