Research Article
A Detailed and High-Resolution Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis over the Past 16 Years in the Horqin Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia
Table 6
Contribution of the additional features for the LULC classification in the study area.
| Additional features | Contribution |
| DEM | Improving discrimination among irrigation land, swampland, and paddy | Slope | Improving discrimination of grassland and forest and bare area and tidal | Aspect | Less contribution | NDVI | Improving discrimination between grassland and forest | NDWI | Improving discrimination between irrigated land and swampland | NDSI | Improving discrimination between salina land and sandy land | NDBI | Enhancing discrimination of built-up and rural settlement area | NDBaI | Improving discrimination between bare area and salinized area | Greenness | Less contribution | Brightness | Less contribution | Wetness | Less contribution | Mean | Improving discrimination between rural settlements and urban built-up area | Variance | Less contribution | Homogeneity | Improving discrimination between rural settlements and urban built-up area | Contrast | Less contribution | Dissimilarity | Improving discrimination between cropland and built-up area | Entropy | Improving discrimination between artificial grassland and cropland | Second moment | Enhancing discrimination of the tidal and rural settlement | Correlation | Less contribution |
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