Wei-Lun+Tsai+Draft

Wei-Lun Tsai's Draft Page

Outline Apr. 14, 2011

__Introduction__ -The purpose of land cover classification in urban area -The difference/difficulties of land cover classification in urban area -Imagery sources and their resolution -Common used methods for land cover classification -The major elements we are interested in and why -Analyzing method used in this study

__Study Area__

__Materials and methods__ -Imageries used in this study and their characteristics -Classification method used in this study -Methods used for comparison

__Results and discussions__ -Land cover classification results -Percentage of land cover type -Cross table of land cover type -Spatial statistical analysis

__Conclusions__ -The need for higher resolution imagery for urban area -The advantage of classification methods used in this study

__Implications __

**Goals:**
 Comparing different land cover classification methods and finding out the proper methods for urban area.

**Objectives:**
 1. Reviewing land cover classification methods and finding out the difficulties/specialties on urban area.  2. Describing the importance of land cover classification on urban area  3. Making connection between the literatures (by chart/table).  4. Bringing out the current issue of this topic and finding out the gap.  5. Making recommendations for future studies.

**Audience: **
 My potential audience will be people who concern about the landscape change on urban area.

Outlines:
**__Abstract__**

 **__Introduction__**  -Describe the purposes of landcover classification for urban areas  -Explain the scope and focus of reviews <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> - Describe the key issues in this topic that have been studied.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Current issue for classifying landcover on urban area__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Describe problems on classifying urban area

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Image resource for urban area__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Describe the current use of image used for landcover classification on urban area <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Compare their data availability and their pros and cons <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Discuss their feasibility and limitation

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Landcover classification methods__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Describe different methods for landcover classification <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Discuss about their cost (time or software cost etc.)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Result evaluation (Validation methods)__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Describe the common validation methods <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Bring out/recommend the proper methods for urban area

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">(__Case study__)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Discussion and Conclusions__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Bring out the gap of the current studies <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> -Recommend the probable solutions for future study