Land Cover and Land Use Mapping of the East Asian Summer Monsoon Region from 1982 to 2015

Yaqian He, Jieun Oh, Eungul Lee and Yaeone Kim
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Yaqian He: Department of Geography, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR 72035, USA
Jieun Oh: Department of Geography, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea
Eungul Lee: Department of Geography, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea
Yaeone Kim: Department of Geography, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: Owing to the recent intensification of the East Asian summer monsoon, the frequency of floods and dry spells, which commonly affect more than one billion people, is continuously increasing. Thus, understanding the causes of changes in the EASM is paramount. Land cover and land use change can perturb a regional climate system through biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes. However, due to the scarcity of temporally continuous land cover and land use maps, the impact of land cover and land use change on the EASM is still not thoroughly explored. In the present study, this limitation was addressed via the production of annual land cover and land use maps of the East Asian summer monsoon region covering a period of 34 years (1982–2015). This was achieved through a random forest classification of phenological information derived from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies Normalized Difference Vegetation Index dataset and terrain information from the Advanced Land Observing Satellite World 3D—30 m Digital Surface Model data. Nine ecological zones were involved in the random forest classification and the classified map in 2015 was validated using very high-resolution images obtained from Google Earth. The overall accuracy (73%) of the classification map surpasses the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Global Land Surface Satellite land cover products for the same year by ~7% and 4%, respectively. According to our classified maps, croplands and forests significantly increased in the East Asian summer monsoon region from 1982 to 2015. The dominant transition in these three decades was from croplands to forests.

Keywords: East Asian summer monsoon; phenology; Digital Surface Model; random forest; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; land cover; land use classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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