Land Use and Land Cover Mapping of Katanino Forest Reserve, Zambia (2019–2023)

Overview The land use and land cover maps encompass the Katanino Forest Reserve in the Copperbelt province, Zambia. These maps categorize the area into two classes: forest and non-forest. They were derived from NICFI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 mosaics, resulting in a spatial resolution of 4.77 meters, covering the period from 2019 to 2023.  Maps Accuracy The overall accuracy of the final annual maps (2019–2023) ranged from 0.90 to 0.94. The user’s and producer’s accuracies are detailed in Table 1. Table 1:  Land use and land cover maps validation, including overall, producer (PA) and user (UA) accuracies values for each class.   2019   2020   2021   2022   2023     PA UA PA UA PA UA PA UA PA UA Forest 0.87 0.99 0.83 0.99 0.88 0.99 0.91 0.99 0.88 1 Non Forest 0.99 0.86 0.99 0.82 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.89 1 0.87 Overall Accuracy 0.92   0.90   0.93   0.94   0.93   Files descripion KAT_2019.tif: 2019 land use and land cover map KAT_2020.tif: 2020 land use and land cover map KAT_2021.tif: 2021 land use and land cover map KAT_2022.tif: 2022 land use and land cover map KAT_2023.tif: 2023 land use and land cover map qgis_style.qml: QGIS style file KAT_training_samples(.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj): training samples with class labels KAT_validation_samples(.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj): validation samples with class labels