The Iran-wide land cover map was generated by processing Sentinel imagery
within the Google Earth Engine Cloud platform. For this purpose, over 2,500
Sentinel-1 and over 11,000 Sentinel-2 images were processed to produce a single
mosaic dataset for the year 2017. Then, an object-based Random Forest
classification method was trained by a large number of reference samples for 13
classes to generate the Iran-wide land cover map.
Ghorbanian, A., Kakooei, M., Amani, M., Mahdavi, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., &
Hasanlou, M. (2020). Improved land cover map of Iran using Sentinel imagery
within Google Earth Engine and a novel automatic workflow for land cover
classification using migrated training samples. ISPRS Journal of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 167, 276-288.doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.013
The Iran-wide land cover map was generated by processing Sentinel imagery within the Google Earth Engine Cloud platform. For this purpose, over 2,500 Sentinel-1 and over 11,000 Sentinel-2 images were processed to produce a single mosaic dataset for the year 2017. Then, an object-based Random Forest classification method was trained …
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Toosi University of Technology LiDAR Lab and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eUsers can access and analyze this dataset through the Google Earth Engine platform.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["The K. N. Toosi University of Technology LiDAR Lab produced a 13-class land cover map of Iran for 2017, using over 13,500 Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images processed in Google Earth Engine. An object-based Random Forest classification method was applied, with reference samples to identify categories like urban, water, forest, and more. The map is accessible via Earth Engine with the snippet `ee.Image(\"KNTU/LiDARLab/IranLandCover/V1\")`, under a CC BY 4.0 license.\n"],null,["# Iran Land Cover Map v1 13-class (2017)\n\nDataset Availability\n: 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z--2018-01-01T00:00:00Z\n\nDataset Provider\n:\n\n\n [K. N. Toosi University of Technology LiDAR Lab](https://en.kntu.ac.ir/laser-scanners-laboratory/)\n\nTags\n:\n [landcover](/earth-engine/datasets/tags/landcover) [landuse-landcover](/earth-engine/datasets/tags/landuse-landcover) \n iran \nkntu \n\n#### Description\n\nThe Iran-wide land cover map was generated by processing Sentinel imagery\nwithin the Google Earth Engine Cloud platform. For this purpose, over 2,500\nSentinel-1 and over 11,000 Sentinel-2 images were processed to produce a single\nmosaic dataset for the year 2017. Then, an object-based Random Forest\nclassification method was trained by a large number of reference samples for 13\nclasses to generate the Iran-wide land cover map.\n\n### Bands\n\n**Bands**\n\n| Name | Pixel Size | Description |\n|------------------|------------|----------------|\n| `classification` | 10 meters | Classification |\n\n**classification Class Table**\n\n| Value | Color | Description |\n|-------|---------|-----------------|\n| 1 | #000000 | Urban |\n| 2 | #006eff | Water |\n| 3 | #41a661 | Wetland |\n| 4 | #ff7f7f | Kalut (yardang) |\n| 5 | #bee8ff | Marshland |\n| 6 | #ff00c5 | Salty Land |\n| 7 | #ff0000 | Clay |\n| 8 | #00734c | Forest |\n| 9 | #732600 | Outcrop |\n| 10 | #ffaa00 | Uncovered Plain |\n| 11 | #d3ffbe | Sand |\n| 12 | #446589 | Farm Land |\n| 13 | #cccccc | Range Land |\n\n### Terms of Use\n\n**Terms of Use**\n\nThis work \"Iran Land Cover Map\nv1 13-class (2017)\" by Arsalan Ghorbanian, Mohammad Kakooei, Meisam Amani,\nSahel Mahdavi, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Mahdi Hasanlou is licensed under the [Creative\nCommons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)\n\n### Citations\n\nCitations:\n\n- Ghorbanian, A., Kakooei, M., Amani, M., Mahdavi, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., \\&\n Hasanlou, M. (2020). Improved land cover map of Iran using Sentinel imagery\n within Google Earth Engine and a novel automatic workflow for land cover\n classification using migrated training samples. ISPRS Journal of\n Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 167, 276-288.\n [doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.013](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.07.013)\n\n### Explore with Earth Engine\n\n| **Important:** Earth Engine is a platform for petabyte-scale scientific analysis and visualization of geospatial datasets, both for public benefit and for business and government users. Earth Engine is free to use for research, education, and nonprofit use. To get started, please [register for Earth Engine access.](https://console.cloud.google.com/earth-engine)\n\n### Code Editor (JavaScript)\n\n```javascript\nvar dataset = ee.Image('KNTU/LiDARLab/IranLandCover/V1');\n\nvar visualization = {\n bands: ['classification']\n};\n\nMap.setCenter(54.0, 33.0, 5);\n\nMap.addLayer(dataset, visualization, 'Classification');\n```\n[Open in Code Editor](https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=Examples:Datasets/KNTU/KNTU_LiDARLab_IranLandCover_V1) \n[Iran Land Cover Map v1 13-class (2017)](/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/KNTU_LiDARLab_IranLandCover_V1) \nThe Iran-wide land cover map was generated by processing Sentinel imagery within the Google Earth Engine Cloud platform. For this purpose, over 2,500 Sentinel-1 and over 11,000 Sentinel-2 images were processed to produce a single mosaic dataset for the year 2017. Then, an object-based Random Forest classification method was trained ... \nKNTU/LiDARLab/IranLandCover/V1, landcover,landuse-landcover \n2017-01-01T00:00:00Z/2018-01-01T00:00:00Z \n24.62 43.46 39.95 65.58 \nGoogle Earth Engine \nhttps://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets\n\n- [](https://doi.org/https://en.kntu.ac.ir/laser-scanners-laboratory/)\n- [](https://doi.org/https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/KNTU_LiDARLab_IranLandCover_V1)"]]
