Salah Eldin HAMID

Zmeny zastavaných areálov v meste El Fasher: dôsledok konfliktu v sudánskom Darfúre

Hamid, S. E.: Changes of artificial surfaces in El Fasher city: result of the conflict in Darfur-Sudan. Kartografické listy, 2013, 21 (2).

Abstract: Identification of urban growth and its change using satellite data are an important sphere of interest. Darfur in western Sudan has been affected by the war since 2001 where hundreds of thousands of IDPs moved and stayed in El Fasher city the capital of the northern Darfur State, so the identification of change in the city is important. In this paper, we used the Landsat ETM+ subset to identify the change in El Fasher city. This paper describes the stage of the classification process for LU/LC classification and changes in urban land in El Fasher city over a 5-year period. Subset of Landsat ETM+ images of 2001 and 2005 dates were used in this study. The images interpreted using unsupervised and supervised classification methods. Result showed an overall classification accuracy of 84.00% and 85.33% respectively for five classes and the Kappa coefficient of 0.7327 and 0.7640 respectively.

Keywords: Landsat ETM+, LU/LC classification, change detection of artificial surfaces, Darfur