Land cover classification and mapping of a polar desert in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ...

• Main Authors: Desjardins, Émilie, Lai, Sandra, Houle, Laurent, Caron, Alain, Thériault, Véronique, Tam, Andrew, Vézina, François, Berteaux, Dominique
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: Remote sensing; Satellite image; predictor selection; majority voting; ensemble model; Snow; vegetation; water; FOS Other natural sciences; Arctic; Berteaux; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canadian Forces Station Alert; Caron; Ellesmere Island; Houle; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; polar desert
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kpk; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3bk3j9kpk

The use of remote sensing for developing land cover maps in the Arctic has grown considerably in the last two decades, especially for monitoring the effects of climate change. The main challenge is to link information extracted from satellite imagery to ground covers due to the fine-scale spatial he...