Land Use and Land Cover Mapping of Katanino Forest Reserve, Zambia (2019–2023)

<h1><strong>Overview</strong></h1> <p>The land use and land cover maps encompass the Katanino Forest Reserve in the Copperbelt province, Zambia. These maps categorize the area into two classes: forest and non-forest. They were derived from NICFI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 mosaics, resulting in a spatial resolution of 4.77 meters, covering the period from 2019 to 2023.&nbsp;</p> <h1><strong>Maps Accuracy</strong></h1> <p>The overall accuracy of the final annual maps (2019&ndash;2023) ranged from 0.90 to 0.94. The user&rsquo;s and producer&rsquo;s accuracies are detailed in Table 1.</p> <p>Table 1:&nbsp; Land use and land cover maps validation, including overall, producer (PA) and user (UA) accuracies values for each class.</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>2019</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>2020</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>2021</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>2022</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>2023</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><strong><span>&nbsp;</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>PA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>UA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>PA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>UA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>PA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>UA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>PA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>UA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>PA</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>UA</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><span>Forest</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.87</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.83</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.88</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.91</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.88</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>1</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><span>Non Forest</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.86</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.82</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.99</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.89</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>1</span></p> </td> <td> <p><span>0.87</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><strong><span>Overall Accuracy</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>0.92</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>0.90</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>0.93</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>0.94</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </td> <td> <p><strong><span>0.93</span></strong></p> </td> <td> <p><span>&nbsp;</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h1><strong>Files descripion</strong></h1> <ul> <li>KAT_2019.tif: 2019 land use and land cover map</li> <li>KAT_2020.tif: 2020 land use and land cover map</li> <li>KAT_2021.tif: 2021 land use and land cover map</li> <li>KAT_2022.tif: 2022 land use and land cover map</li> <li>KAT_2023.tif: 2023 land use and land cover map</li> <li>qgis_style.qml: QGIS style file</li> <li>KAT_training_samples(.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj): training samples with class labels</li> <li>KAT_validation_samples(.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj): validation samples with class labels</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>