Land Use and Cover Maps for Mawas Peatlands, 1994-2019

Land use and cover maps provide 30-meter resolution classifications for the Mawas peatland region in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The dataset includes six files representing five-year intervals from 1994 to 2019, generated from Landsat satellite imagery using manual training data and the CART classification method. The data was produced by ORNL_CLOUD and is hosted on multiple government platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between fire occurrence and specific land cover classes like peat swamp forest or low shrubs.
• Tracking the conversion of peat swamp forest to other classes such as urban/bare land over a 25-year period.
• Assessing the accuracy of remote sensing classification methods for manually defined training polygons.
• Modeling carbon stock changes based on transitions between tall shrubs/secondary forest and other vegetation types.
• Evaluating regional land management policies using the spatial distribution of the five defined land cover classes.

Strengths

• Provides a 25-year time series (1994-2019) for analyzing long-term land cover change.
• Uses 30-meter resolution Landsat Tier 1 surface reflectance data, a standard for land cover mapping.
• Includes a dedicated file for 2015 created specifically for accuracy assessment of the classification.
• Classification is based on manually identified training polygons, leveraging investigator knowledge of the local area.

Limitations

• Conflicting last updated dates exist between sources (2019-12-31 vs. 2026-03-13), creating uncertainty about metadata maintenance.
• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• The license is listed as 'other-license-specified' but the exact terms are not detailed.

Provenance

Source

ORNL_CLOUD

Collection Method

Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 Tier 1 surface reflectance products were used. Investigators manually identified training polygons for five land cover classes, then applied the Classification and Regression Trees (CART) method for prediction.

Time Range

1994-2019

Freshness

2026-03 13 01:21:27.493474

Geography

Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia