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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<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-XLIII-B3-2020-953-2020</article-id>
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<article-title>COMBINING ENVIRONMENTAL AND LANDSAT ANALYSIS READY DATA FOR VEGETATION MAPPING: A CASE STUDY IN THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNA BIOME</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bendini</surname>
<given-names>H. N.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fonseca</surname>
<given-names>L. M. G.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Schwieder</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rufin</surname>
<given-names>P.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Korting</surname>
<given-names>T. S.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Koumrouyan</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hostert</surname>
<given-names>P.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>INPE, National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>IRI THESys, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, Berlin, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>21</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2020</year>
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<volume>XLIII-B3-2020</volume>
<fpage>953</fpage>
<lpage>960</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2020 H. N. Bendini et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
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<p>The Cerrado biome in Brazil covers approximately 24% of the country. It is one of the richest and most diverse savannas in the world, with 23 vegetation types (physiognomies) consisting mostly of tropical savannas, grasslands, forests and dry forests. It is considered as one of the global hotspots of biodiversity because of the high level of endemism and rapid loss of its original habitat. This work aims to analyze the potential of Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) in combination with different environmental data to classify the vegetation in the Cerrado in two different hierarchical levels. Here we present results of a pixel-based modelling exercise, in which field data were combined with a set of input variables using a Random Forest classification approach. On the first hierarchical level, with the three classes savanna, grasslands and forest, our model results reached f1-scores of 0.86, 0.87 and 0.85 leading to an overall accuracy of 0.86. In the second hierarchical level we differentiated a total of 12 vegetation physiognomies with an overall accuracy of 0.77.</p>
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