Fig. 1. The study area and the ground survey point in this study. The original whole scene of Landsat ETM+ data is shown as base map. A rectangle subset of the whole scene is selected as the final data for forest cover classification which is shown in false 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 figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.)