Fig 1.
Location map of the study area.
Fig 2.
True color composite map of the study area pre- and post-construction of the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas pipelines.
Image A is from 17th November 2010, showing the area prior to the construction of the pipelines. Image B is from 17th October 2012, showing the area after the construction of the pipelines. (DigitalGlobe order number: 059416456010_01) Source: http://www.digitalglobe.com.
Fig 3.
False-color composite images of the three sites between pre- and post- pipelines construction.
The yellow arrow shows the appearance of the pipelines in 2012 images traversing all three locations. 2005: Landsat 5(R:3, G:3, B:1), 2010: Landsat 7(R:3, G:3, B:1), 2012: Landsat 8 (R:4, G:3, B:2). (Landsat-5, 7and 8 images courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/).
Fig 4.
Examples of field visits used to help guide the development of training polygons and validation.
(Source: Authors’ own).
Table 1.
Accuracies based on an accuracy assessment of the two LULCC maps for 2010.
Rows are map categories, and columns are reference categories.
Table 2.
Accuracies based on an accuracy assessment of the two LULCC maps for 2012.
Rows are map categories, and columns are reference categories.
Table 3.
Error matrix (sample count) for 2010 based on stratified random sampling.
Table 4.
Error matrix (area proportion) for 2010 based on stratified random sampling.
Table 5.
Error matrix (sample count) for 2012 based on stratified random sampling.
Table 6.
Error matrix (area proportion) for 2012 based on stratified random sampling.
Fig 5.
(A)2010 Pre-construction and (B)2012 Post-construction land cover map for the study area classified into five major land cover classes, including agriculture (orange), forest (green), infrastructure development (red), residential arear/non-forest (pink), scrubland (blue).
Table 7.
Area (in hectares) and spatial change in land cover land use classes and overall net gain and losses between 2010 and 2012 in the study area.
Table 8.
Gain and losses, and net change of land cover between 2010 and 2012.
Fig 6.
LULCC map with major land conversion classes, depicting land cover conversion and non-conversion between 2010 and 2012 along the pipelines in Ann township.
Table 9.
LULC conversion between 2010 to 2012.
Fig 7.
Net forest change between 2010 and 2012.