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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1499-2018</article-id>
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<article-title>EXPLORING CAPABILITIES OF SENTINEL-2 FOR VEGETATION MAPPING USING RANDOM FOREST</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Saini</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ghosh</surname>
<given-names>S. K.</given-names>
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<addr-line>Department of Computer Science, G. B. Pant Engineering College, Pauri , 246001, India</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Geomatics Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, 247667, India</addr-line>
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<day>30</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2018</year>
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<volume>XLII-3</volume>
<fpage>1499</fpage>
<lpage>1502</lpage>
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<p>Accurate vegetation mapping is essential for monitoring crop and sustainable agricultural practice. This study aims to explore the capabilities of Sentinel-2 data over Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data for vegetation mapping. Two combination of Sentinel-2 dataset have been considered, first combination is 4-band dataset at 10m resolution which consists of NIR, R, G and B bands, while second combination is generated by stacking 4 bands having 10&amp;thinsp;m resolution along with other six sharpened bands using Gram-Schmidt algorithm. For Landsat-8 OLI dataset, six multispectral bands have been pan-sharpened to have a spatial resolution of 15&amp;thinsp;m using Gram-Schmidt algorithm. Random Forest (RF) and Maximum Likelihood classifier (MLC) have been selected for classification of images. It is found that, overall accuracy achieved by RF for 4-band, 10-band dataset of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI are 88.38&amp;thinsp;%, 90.05&amp;thinsp;% and 86.68&amp;thinsp;% respectively. While, MLC give an overall accuracy of 85.12&amp;thinsp;%, 87.14&amp;thinsp;% and 83.56&amp;thinsp;% for 4-band, 10-band Sentinel and Landsat-8 OLI respectively. Results shown that 10-band Sentinel-2 dataset gives highest accuracy and shows a rise of 3.37&amp;thinsp;% for RF and 3.58&amp;thinsp;% for MLC compared to Landsat-8 OLI. However, all the classes show significant improvement in accuracy but a major rise in accuracy is observed for Sugarcane, Wheat and Fodder for Sentinel 10-band imagery. This study substantiates the fact that Sentinel-2 data can be utilized for mapping of vegetation with a good degree of accuracy when compared to Landsat-8 OLI specifically when objective is to map a sub class of vegetation.</p>
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