Land use land cover high resolution map (10 m) for the area of Tori-Bossito, Benin, 2010-2011

This dataset is a high spatial resolution Land Use / Land Cover (LULC) map of the region of Tori-Bossito, southern Benin. Its spatial resolution is 10 m. It was produced in 2011 and made available for a wide range of uses. It has been produced to study the environmental determinants of the presence and abundance of three malaria mosquito species. It contains 14 land cover classes: Freshwater, Herbswamp, Aquatic grassland, Coco tree, Eucalyptus tree, Thicket, Palm tree, Savanna, Teak tree, Pineapple, Degraded riparian forest, Degraded surfaces, Rain-fed agriculture, Forest. The method used to generate the map involved a supervised object-based image classification using mono- and multi-spectral SPOT 5 satellite products from 2010, ground-truth data (> 200 plots) acquired by fieldwork (2010-2011), and nearest-neighbor classifier. The classification accuracy was 98%. In addition to the LULC georeferenced raster data, we propose the following files in this release: the raster attribute table, as an .ods (libreoffice) file, including names and definitions of the land cover classes in both English and French ; a QGIS layer style file (.qml) for visualizing the raster in QGIS ; two color map files (.clr) (English and French) to be used in a variety of GIS software. the map as a .png miniature image ; representative pictures of the land cover classes ; The methodology used to generate the data was detailed in french in Moiroux 2012 (https://theses.hal.science/tel-00812118, p. 79-85 ) and in English, in a more concise way in Moiroux et al. 2013 ( https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-71).

本数据集为贝宁南部托里-博西托（Tori-Bossito）区域的高空间分辨率土地利用/土地覆盖（Land Use / Land Cover, LULC）地图，空间分辨率为10米，制作于2011年，可广泛用于各类研究与应用。本数据集旨在探究三种疟蚊物种的存在与丰度的环境决定因素。该数据集包含14类土地覆盖类型：淡水、草本沼泽、水生草本植被、可可树、桉树、灌丛、棕榈树、稀树草原、柚木树、菠萝种植地、退化河岸林、退化地表、雨养农业区、森林。本地图采用基于监督对象的图像分类方法生成，所用数据源包括2010年获取的单波段与多波段SPOT 5卫星影像、2010-2011年野外调查获取的超过200个样地的地面实测数据，以及最近邻分类器。该分类的总体精度达98%。除土地覆盖地理参考栅格数据外，本次发布还包含以下文件：1. 栅格属性表（.ods格式，适用于LibreOffice），包含14类土地覆盖类型的中英文名称与定义；2. 用于在QGIS中可视化栅格数据的QGIS图层样式文件（.qml格式）；3. 适用于各类GIS软件的两套配色方案文件（.clr格式，分别对应英文与法语版本）；4. 该地图的.png格式缩略图；5. 各类土地覆盖类型的代表性实拍照片。本数据集的生成方法已在Moiroux 2012（https://theses.hal.science/tel-00812118，第79-85页）的法语文献中详细阐述，同时在Moiroux等人2013年的英文精简版文献（https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-71）中进行了概要说明。