Dakar very-high resolution land cover map

<p>This land cover map of Dakar (Senegal) was created from a Pléiades very-high resolution imagery with a spatial resolution of 0.5 meter. The methodology followed a open-source semi-automated framework [1] that rely on <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/">GRASS GIS</a> using a local unsupervised optimization approach for the segmentation part [2-3].</p> <p>Description of the files:</p> <ul> <li>"Landcover.zip" : The direct output from the supervised classification using the Random Forest classifier.</li> <li>"Landcover_Postclassif_Level8_Splitbuildings.zip" : Post-processed version of the previous map ("Landcover"), with reduced misclassifications from the original classification (rule-based used to reclassify the errors, with a focus on built-up classes).</li> <li>"Landcover_Postclassif_Level8_modalfilter3.zip" : Smoothed version of the previous product (modal filter with window 3x3 applied on the "Landcover_Postclassif_Level8_Splitbuildings"). </li> <li>"Landcover_Postclassif_Level9_Shadowsback.zip" : Corresponds to the "level8_Splitbuildings" with shadows coming from the original classification.</li> <li>"Dakar_legend_colors.txt" : Text file providing the correspondance between the value of the pixels and the legend labels and a proposition of color to be used.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>References:</p> <p>[1] Grippa, Taïs, Moritz Lennert, Benjamin Beaumont, Sabine Vanhuysse, Nathalie Stephenne, and Eléonore Wolff. 2017. “An Open-Source Semi-Automated Processing Chain for Urban Object-Based Classification.” <em>Remote Sensing</em> 9 (4): 358. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040358">https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040358</a>.</p> <p>[2] Grippa, Tais, Stefanos Georganos, Sabine G. Vanhuysse, Moritz Lennert, and Eléonore Wolff. 2017. “A Local Segmentation Parameter Optimization Approach for Mapping Heterogeneous Urban Environments Using VHR Imagery.” In <em>Proceedings Volume 10431, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments II.</em>, edited by Wieke Heldens, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Thilo Erbertseder, and Ying Zhang, 20. SPIE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278422">https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278422</a>.</p> <p>[3] Georganos, Stefanos, Taïs Grippa, Moritz Lennert, Sabine Vanhuysse, and Eleonore Wolff. 2017. “SPUSPO: Spatially Partitioned Unsupervised Segmentation Parameter Optimization for Efficiently Segmenting Large Heterogeneous Areas.” In <em>Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’17)</em>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Founding: </p> <p>This dataset was produced in the frame of two research project : MAUPP (<a href="http://maupp.ulb.ac.be">http://maupp.ulb.ac.be</a>) and REACT (<a href="http://react.ulb.be">http://react.ulb.be</a>), funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (<a href="http://eo.belspo.be/About/Stereo3.aspx">BELSPO</a>).