MCR LTER: Coral Reef: 2018 land cover map of Moorea, French Polynesia

Using a collection of imagery from June-September 2018 taken by the Worldview-3 satellite, land cover was classified for the island of Mo’orea, French Polynesia. A deep learning pixel classification model was trained for each of four separate dates of image collection when clouds were sparse over the island. The model was trained at the native resolution of the imagery (<2m pixels). Training data included the multispectral WV-3 bands in addition to derived bands that index vegetation productivity (NDVI), vegetation texture (NDVI IDM), and water cover (NDWI). A consensus land cover map was generated from model predictions across the four sets of imagery.