Accuracy assessment of land use and land cover classification of AL-Najaf Province, Iraq
Other Title(s)
تقييم دقة التصنيف لغطاء الأراضي و استخدامات الأراضي لمحافظة النجف، العراق
Joint Authors
Husayn, Ali Kazim
Ghazal, Nawal Khalaf
Source
Issue
Vol. 9, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2017), pp.72-79, 8 p.
Publisher
University of Kufa Faculty of Science Department of Physics
Publication Date
2017-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The study has been applied in AL-Najaf province within sedimentary plain, where the study area has been divided into three districts : AL- Haydria sub district, AL- Kufa district center with (AL-Abbassiya sub district, and AL- Huriya sub district) and AL- Manathera district center with (AL-Heera sub district, AL- Mishkahab sub district, and AL-Qadisiya sub district), then maximum likelihood supervised classifications has been used in order to classify these districts by using landsat 8 satellite image of 2015.
For each one of these districts, there are totally six categories were identified and classified in this study.
They are a residential buildings, water bodies, orchards, agriculture lands, a green space and bare lands.
The ERDAS Imagine version 9.2 is presented the following accuracy, for AL-Kufa district center, the overall classification accuracy is 85.05%and the overall Kappa Statistics is 0.7850, whereas AL-Haydria sub district, the overall classification accuracy 94.82% and the overall kappa statistics is 0.8501, and finally AL-Manathera district center, the overall classification accuracy is 89.12%and the overall kappa statistics is 0.8552.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ghazal, Nawal Khalaf& Husayn, Ali Kazim. 2017. Accuracy assessment of land use and land cover classification of AL-Najaf Province, Iraq. Journal of Kufa-Physics،Vol. 9, no. 1, pp.72-79.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-884636
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ghazal, Nawal Khalaf& Husayn, Ali Kazim. Accuracy assessment of land use and land cover classification of AL-Najaf Province, Iraq. Journal of Kufa-Physics Vol. 9, no. 1 (2017), pp.72-79.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-884636
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ghazal, Nawal Khalaf& Husayn, Ali Kazim. Accuracy assessment of land use and land cover classification of AL-Najaf Province, Iraq. Journal of Kufa-Physics. 2017. Vol. 9, no. 1, pp.72-79.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-884636
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 78-79
Record ID
BIM-884636