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