Abstract:After the division of the Korean peninsula, North Korea overexploited their natural resources especially the forest. It lost about 23% of the total forest from 1990 to 2011, which continues today. However, the country is inaccessible to monitor such changes. Hence, in this study, we aim to use Landsat 8 imagery with the aid of Google Earth to map erosion-prone areas in a subset area of Kangwon Province, North Korea. Pruned Decision Tree (DT) modeling was used in selecting the optimum ratio/index and threshold … Show more
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