Land use land cover very high resolution map (1.5-m) for the area of Diébougou, Burkina Faso, 2018

This dataset is a very-high spatial resolution Land Use / Land Cover (LULC) map of the region of Diébougou, located in southwestern Burkina Faso. Its spatial resolution is 1.5 m. It was produced in 2018 and made available for a wide range of uses. It contains 12 land cover classes: ligneous savanna, crop, grassland, marsh, riparian forest, woodland, rice, settlements, bare soil, main roads, permanent water bodies and running waters. The method used to generate the map involved a supervised object-based image classification using multisource satellite products (SPOT 7, Sentinel-2, a Digital Elevation Model), a ground-truth dataset acquired by fieldwork and photo-interpretation, and a random forest classifier. The classification accuracy is 84 %. In addition to the LULC georeferenced raster data, we propose the following files in this release: the raster attribute table, including definitions of the land cover classes in english and french ; a layer style (*.qml) to visualize the raster in QGIS ; the map as a .jpeg image (for visualization purposes only) ; representative pictures of the land cover classes ; the detailed methodology used to generate the data, with the resulting confusion matrix (in English and French) ; the ground-truth georeferenced dataset used for training and test in the classification ; the R script used to create the product, based exclusively on Free and Open Source software.