Landsat TM Land Cover Classification for Western Cambodia

Classified Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery captures land cover for a specific path and row over West Cambodia. The data was produced under the TREES project contract with the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. The single-scene image is dated 27 March 1992.

Use Cases

• Analyzing 1992-era land cover classes like forest, agriculture, or water bodies in Path 127 Row 52.
• Validating modern land cover change models by comparing current classifications against this historical baseline scene.
• Training image segmentation models to identify spectral signatures associated with specific land cover classes from the Thematic Mapper bands.

Strengths

• Data originates from the well-calibrated Landsat Thematic Mapper sensor.
• Provides a spatially explicit land cover classification for a defined geographic tile (Path 127, Row 52).

Limitations

• Single snapshot from March 1992 with no temporal series for change analysis.
• Unknown classification schema, legend, or accuracy assessment for the land cover labels.
• Limited geographic scope covering only the western part of Cambodia.

Provenance

Source

NASA Earthdata, provided by organization CEOS_EXTRA under the TREES project.

Collection Method

Satellite image classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper data.

Time Range

27 March 1992

Geography

Western Cambodia, Landsat Path 127 Row 52.