theFig. 1. The study area and the ground survey point in this study. The original wholescene of Landsat ETM+ data is shown as base map. A rectangle subset of the wholescene is selected as the final data for forest cover classification which is shown infalse color (the NIR, red, and green bands of ETM+ data are assigned to red, green,and blue color bands). (For interpretation of the references to color in this figurelegend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.)