The other vegetation included forest/rubber tree and non-forest (agriculture), generating the classes could be made by either supervised method or visual interpretation. The non-vegetation class, including paddy field, outcrops, range land, community and other was processed using supervised method with maximum likelihood ratio for decision criteria.
The thirty one sampling sites were investigated to examine the growth truth in detail on vegetation types, land use pattern and overall landscape on the 2007 satellite images. The Kappa coefficient was applied to test the reliability of the LCLU map.