Evaluation and Preparation of Land Use Map of Nirchai Watershed Using object oriented method

Land use classification has always been one of the most important applications of remote sensing, and for this reason, different methods have been developed. With the passage of time, more advanced methods with higher accuracy were created, which increased the accuracy and performed better in extracting classes that were spectrally closer to each other. Algorithms for detecting changes in remote sensing images are divided into two categories: pixel-based and object-oriented, based on the minimum processing unit. The purpose of this research is to evaluate and prepare a land use map of the Nirchai watershed in Ardabil province using the object-oriented method. Land use classification including segmentation of image data was done using multi-scale segmentation algorithm in eCognition software environment. Then these parts were selected and classified and evaluated using the object-oriented nearest neighbor algorithm. The results showed that the object-oriented classification has an overall accuracy of 99 and a kappa coefficient of 0.88%, which indicates the high accuracy of the object-oriented method in classification. Also, the land use map showed that the use of water areas and poor pastures occupied the least (70 hectares) and the most (8069 hectares), respectively.