This data set includes classified land cover transition maps at 30-m resolution derived from Landsat TM, MSS, ETM+ imagery and aerial photos of Altamira, Santarem, and Ponta de Pedras, in the state of Para, Brazil. The Landsat images were classified into several types of land use (e.g., forest, secondary succession, pasture, annual crops, perennial crops, and water) and subjected to change detection analysis to create transition matrices of land cover change. Dates of acquired images represent the most cloud-free image retrievals from 1970-2001 for each site and are therefore not continuous. There are 3 GeoTIFF files (.tif) with this data set.
Cite this data set as follows:
Brondizio, E.S. and E.F. Moran. 2012. LBA-ECO LC-09 Land Cover Transitions Maps for Study Sites in Para, Brazil: 1970-2001. Data set. Available on-line [http:/daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1098
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Project: LBA (Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazon)
Activity: LBA-ECO
LBA Science Component: Land Use and Land Cover
Team ID: LC-09 (Moran / Batistella)
The investigators were Moran, Emilio Federico; Batistella, Mateus; Adams, Ryan Thomas; Boucek, Bruce William; Brondizio, Eduardo S.; D'Antona, Alvaro; Demming, Kristin Rooke; Fiorini, Stefano; Futemma, Celia Regina Tomiko; Hedin, Lars; Hetrick, Scott S.; Jensen, Ryan R.; Lu, Dengsheng; Ludewigs, Thomas; Mausel, Paul; McGroddy, Megan; Menzies, John Iral; Navarro, Doris Graziela; Ponzoni, Flavio Jorge; Randolph, J.C.; Schmid, Hans Peter E.; Siqueira, Andrea Dalledone; Toniolo, Maria Angelica; Valeriano, Dalton De Morisson; Valladares, Gustavo Souza; VanWey, Leah and Yu, Genong . You may contact Brondizio, Dr Eduardo S. (ebrondiz@indiana.edu)
LBA Data Set Inventory ID: LC09_Transition_Matrices
This data set includes classified land cover transition maps at 30-m resolution derived from Landsat TM, MSS, ETM+ imagery and aerial photos of Altamira, Santarem, and Ponta de Pedras, in the state of Para, Brazil. The Landsat images were classified into several types of land use (e.g., forest, secondary succession, pasture, annual crops, perennial crops, and water) and subjected to change detection analysis to create transition matrices of land cover change. Dates of acquired images represent the most cloud-free image retrievals from 1970-2001 for each site and are therefore not continuous.
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This data set includes classified land cover transition maps at 30-m resolution derived from Landsat TM, MSS, ETM+ imagery and aerial photos of Altamira, Santarem, and Ponta de Pedras, in the state of Para, Brazil. The Landsat images were classified into several types of land use (e.g., forest, secondary succession, pasture, annual crops, perennial crops, and water).
There are 3 GeoTIFF files (.tif) with this data set, one for each of the three study areas. The images have the projection information listed below.
Files/Land Use Classes:
s_class_altamira.tif.
| Value | Class |
|---|---|
| 0 | Unclassified |
| 1-2 | Forest |
| 3-4 | Deforestation before 1970 |
| 5 | Deforestation before 1975 |
| 6 | Deforestation before 1976 |
| 7-8 | Deforestation before 1979 |
| 9-10 | Deforestation before 1985 |
| 11-12 | Deforestation before 1991 |
| 13-14 | Deforestation before 1996 |
| 15 | Forest |
| 16 | Deforestation before 1996 |
| 17-18 | Water |
rs_class_pontadepedras.tif
| Value | Class |
|---|---|
| 0 | Unclassified |
| 1 | Water |
| 2 | Forest |
| 3 | Deforestation before 1991 |
| 4 | Bare Soil |
| 5 | Secondary Succession |
| 6 | Fallow Use |
| 7 | Secondary Regrowth |
| 8 | Savanna |
rs_class_santarem.tif
| Value | Class |
|---|---|
| 0 | Unclassified |
| 1 | Water |
| 2 | Forest |
| 3 | Deforestation before 1972 |
| 4 | Deforestation before 1979 |
| 5 | Deforestation before 1986 |
| 6 | Deforestation before 1991 |
| 7 | Deforestation before 2001 |
| 8 | Savanna |
| 9 | Other land cover (urban, roads, bare areas, etc) |
Site boundaries: (All latitude and longitude given in decimal degrees)
| Site (Region) | Westernmost Longitude | Easternmost Longitude | Northernmost Latitude | Southernmost Latitude | Geodetic Datum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Para Western (Santarem) - Altamira (Para Western (Santarem)) | -54.00000 | -51.00000 | -2.50000 | -4.0000 | South-American Datum, 1969 (SAD-69) |
| Para Western (Santarem) - Santarem-Cuiaba Road (Para Western (Santarem)) | -55.61 | -54.288055 | -2.305 | -4.5591666 | South-American Datum, 1969 (SAD-69) |
| Para Eastern (Belem) - Ponta de Pedras (Para Eastern (Belem)) | -48.86000 | -48.86000 | -1.36000 | -1.36000 | South-American Datum, 1969 (SAD-69) |
Time period:
Platform/Sensor/Parameters measured include:
Data to be used in spatial analysis of land use and land cover change.
Data were georeferenced to previously rectified images with low RMS error (<1.0 m).
Classifications were produced with low errors of omission/commission (at time of metadata creation, these data were unavailable).
Study Sites
Land cover types were identified in classified Landsat TM, MSS, ETM+ images and aerial photos of Altamira, Santarem, and Ponta de Pedras, in the state of Para, Brazil.
Methods
Original imagery was acquired from the following:
Dates of acquired images represent the most cloud-free image retrievals from 1970-2001 and are therefore not continuous.
Bands were combined (layer-stack) and registered to UTM using ERDAS Imagine (Leica Geosystems, St. Gallen, Switzerland) (version unknown at the time of metadata creation). Images were georeferenced to previously rectified images using ERDAS Imagine. Radiometric and atmospheric corrections were done according to methods described by Green et al. (2005).
Data have been rectified and subset unless otherwise noted. Individual images were classified into several types of land use (e.g., forest, secondary succession, pasture, annual crops, perennial crops, and water).
These classified images were used in change detection analysis to create transition matrices of land cover change. Classified images were developed by first running an unsupervised ISODATA classification, and editing the class names based on image interpretation, AOIs, spectral signatures, field notes and maps, and previous classification, using Erdas IMAGINE. Classified images were then used in a change detection analysis, using Erdas IMAGINE.
Data were originally in the Imagine file format (.img), but exported to TIF (.tif) using ERDAS Imagine 8.7.
This data is available through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).
Contact for Data Center Access Information:
E-mail: uso@daac.ornl.gov
Telephone: +1 (865) 241-3952
Green, G.M., C.M. Schweik, and J.C. Randolph. 2005. Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability. Pages 131-160 in E.F. Moran and E. Ostrom, editors. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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