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Assessing Multi-Temporal Global Urban Land-Cover Products Using Spatio-Temporal Stratified Sampling

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi11080451

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accuracy assessment; multi-temporal global urban land-cover data; stratified sampling; spatio-temporal

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41631178, 41822106]
  2. National Key Research and Development of China [2018YFB0505400]
  3. Dawn Scholar of Shanghai [18SG22]
  4. State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering [SLDRCE19-B-35]
  5. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China

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This study proposes the use of spatio-temporal stratified sampling to evaluate thematic mappings with respect to temporal changes and spatial clustering, and an optimization algorithm is used to determine sample sizes for different strata. Results show that this method leads to the smallest bias in accuracy estimation compared to conventional sample allocation methods.
In recent years, the availability of multi-temporal global land-cover datasets has meant that they have become a key data source for evaluating land cover in many applications. Due to the high data volume of the multi-temporal land-cover datasets, probability sampling is an efficient method for validating multi-temporal global urban land-cover maps. However, the current accuracy assessment methods often work for a single-epoch dataset, and they are not suitable for multi-temporal data products. Limitations such as repeated sampling and inappropriate sample allocation can lead to inaccurate evaluation results. In this study, we propose the use of spatio-temporal stratified sampling to assess thematic mappings with respect to the temporal changes and spatial clustering. The total number of samples in the two stages, i.e., map and pixel, was obtained by using a probability sampling model. Since the proportion of the area labeled as no change is large while that of the area labeled as change is small, an optimization algorithm for determining the sample sizes of the different strata is proposed by minimizing the sum of variance of the user's accuracy, producer's accuracy, and proportion of area for all strata. The experimental results show that the allocation of sample size by the proposed method results in the smallest bias in the estimated accuracy, compared with the conventional sample allocation, i.e., equal allocation and proportional allocation. The proposed method was applied to multi-temporal global urban land-cover maps from 2000 to 2010, with a time interval of 5 years. Due to the spatial aggregation characteristics, the local pivotal method (LPM) is adopted to realize spatially balanced sampling, leading to more representative samples for each stratum in the spatial domain. The main contribution of our research is the proposed spatio-temporal sampling approach and the accuracy assessment conducted for the multi-temporal global urban land-cover product.

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