Mapping National Mangrove Cover for Belize Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Imagery
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Field Observations
2.3. Image Preprocessing
2.4. Image Classification
2.5. Accuracy Assessment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Accuracy Assessment Error Matrix | ||||
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Reference Data | ||||
Mangrove | Non-Mangrove | Row Total | ||
Finalized mangrove map | Mangrove | 960 | 40 | 1000 |
Non-mangrove | 34 | 966 | 1000 | |
Column total | 994 | 1006 | 2000 | |
Overall accuracy: | 96.30% | |||
Kappa coefficient: | 92.60% | |||
Mangrove commission error: | 4.00% | |||
Mangrove omission error: | 3.42% |
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Cissell, J.R.; Canty, S.W.J.; Steinberg, M.K.; Simpson, L.T. Mapping National Mangrove Cover for Belize Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Imagery. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 4258. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094258
Cissell JR, Canty SWJ, Steinberg MK, Simpson LT. Mapping National Mangrove Cover for Belize Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Imagery. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(9):4258. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094258
Chicago/Turabian StyleCissell, Jordan R., Steven W. J. Canty, Michael K. Steinberg, and Loraé T. Simpson. 2021. "Mapping National Mangrove Cover for Belize Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Imagery" Applied Sciences 11, no. 9: 4258. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094258
APA StyleCissell, J. R., Canty, S. W. J., Steinberg, M. K., & Simpson, L. T. (2021). Mapping National Mangrove Cover for Belize Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Imagery. Applied Sciences, 11(9), 4258. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11094258