Soulard, C.E., Walker, J.J., Smith, B.W., and Kreitler, Jason R., 2023, Wetlands in the state of Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BC3WKD.
Summary
We created a single map of surface water presence by intersecting water classes from available land cover products (National Wetland Inventory, Gap Analysis Program, National Land Cover Database, and Dynamic Surface Water Extent) across the U.S. state of Arizona. We derived classified samples for four wetland classes from the harmonized map: water, herbaceous wetlands, wooded wetlands, and non-wetland cover. In Google Earth Engine (GEE) we developed a random forest model that combined the training data with spatially explicit predictor variables of vegetation greenness indices, wetness indices, seasonal index variation, topographic variables, and hydrologic parameters. The final product is a wall-to-wall map of general wetland types [...]
Summary
We created a single map of surface water presence by intersecting water classes from available land cover products (National Wetland Inventory, Gap Analysis Program, National Land Cover Database, and Dynamic Surface Water Extent) across the U.S. state of Arizona. We derived classified samples for four wetland classes from the harmonized map: water, herbaceous wetlands, wooded wetlands, and non-wetland cover. In Google Earth Engine (GEE) we developed a random forest model that combined the training data with spatially explicit predictor variables of vegetation greenness indices, wetness indices, seasonal index variation, topographic variables, and hydrologic parameters. The final product is a wall-to-wall map of general wetland types covering all of Arizona. Results show that the final model separates the four wetland classes with an overall accuracy of 86.2%. This data release comprises the raster map file (TIF format) resulting from the training data and random forest model. The 30-m resolution map has 4 classes: not water or wetland (class 0), open water (class 1), herbaceous wetland (class 2), and wooded wetland (class 3).
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Soulard, C.E., Walker, J.J., Smith, B.W., and Kreitler, J., 2024, The feasibility of using nationalāscale datasets for classifying wetlands in Arizona with machine learning: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5985.
Wetland mapping efforts in the United States are particularly scarce in Arizona, where wetlands represent a small part of the landscape yet provide a wide range of ecosystem services. In this study we tested the feasibility of expediting the classification process by sourcing requisite training and testing data from existing national-scale land cover maps instead of customized sample sets, and using the data to train a machine learning (random forest) classification.
Level 1 revision initiated on September 24, 2024 by Christopher E Soulard. The overall accuracy in the abstract is old (84.8%) and was changed to 86.2% to match the paper.