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Ground Control Points (GCPs) for Mangrove and Nipa Palm Classification in the Niger Delta

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dc.contributor NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
dc.contributor PRESSID, Federal Government of Nigeria
dc.contributor Elizabeth Sinclair Bequest Centenary Fund
dc.contributor Nwobi, Chukwuebuka
dc.creator Nwobi, Chukwuebuka
dc.date 2022-06-02T09:30:13Z
dc.date 2022-06-02T09:30:13Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:33:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:33:27Z
dc.identifier Nwobi, Chukwuebuka. (2022). Ground Control Points (GCPs) for Mangrove and Nipa Palm Classification in the Niger Delta, 2016-2017 [dataset]. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3471.
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10283/4449
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3471
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242631
dc.description GCPs were established by collecting GPS coordinates of 6 land cover types (Mangrove Forests, Nipa palm, Inland forests, Surface water, Built regions and Agricultural land) over the Niger Delta. GCPs were collected over the entire Nigerian coastline. These classes were chosen in order to focus on the two focused areas: mangrove and nipa palm. The other classes gave a general overview of other landcover types in the region. Three field campaigns were conducted in March 2016, between October 2016 to January 2017; and from June 2017 to September 2017, across the East-West Highway (which connects the entire coastal state); during surveys on a boat, and during sample collection. Areas of interest during GCP selection were Islands off the Calabar estuary and along the Imo river estuary were a clear transition of nipa palm, to mangrove species, then to agricultural lands or rainforests were present. Another essential region was creeks in Rivers State where settlements were surrounded by a transition of mangrove forests and rainforests. Despite not having GCPs in 2007, Google Earth Pro software located the GCPs collected during my field campaign and estimated the land cover classes they were in 2007. GCPs with obstructed by cloud cover in 2007 imagery were removed in 2007
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
dc.relation Nwobi, C., Williams, M., & Mitchard, E. T. (2020). Rapid Mangrove forest loss and Nipa Palm (Nypa fruticans) expansion in the Niger Delta, 2007-2017. Remote Sensing, 12(14), 2007–2017. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142344
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.subject Niger Delta
dc.subject Ground Control Points
dc.subject Land Cover Classification
dc.subject Validation
dc.subject Mangrove
dc.subject Nipa
dc.subject Climate Change
dc.subject Physical Sciences::Geographical Information Systems
dc.title Ground Control Points (GCPs) for Mangrove and Nipa Palm Classification in the Niger Delta
dc.type dataset
dc.coverage Niger Delta
dc.coverage NG
dc.coverage NIGERIA
dc.coverage start=2016-10-01; end=2017-09-30; scheme=W3C-DTF


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