The objective of this classification is to provide the BOREAS investigators with a data product that characterizes the land cover of the SSA. A Landsat-5 TM image from 02-Sep-1994 was used to derive the classification. A technique was implemented that uses reflectances of various land cover types along with a geometric optical canopy model to produce spectral trajectories. These trajectories are used as training data to classify the image into the different land cover classes. These data are provided in a binary image file format.
Companion files include example thumbnail images that may be viewed and the image data files downloaded using a convenient viewer utility.
A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/TE/ltmphyss/comp/TE18_SSA_Class_Traj.txt.
ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.
Hall, F. G., and D. Knapp. 1999. BOREAS TE-18 Landsat TM Physical Classification image of the SSA. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/432.
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