Land cover in Dongting Lake region has been faced high variations during recent decades. Therefore , there has a strong need to investigate and understand the land cover changes in Dongting Lake region between land cover types. In this study, support vector machine (SVM) classification method was employed to detect changes in land cover dynamic in Dongting Lake region using Landsat images for the year 1995, 2006 and 2015. Land cover information was classified to five categories: waterbody, wetland, built-up, cropland and forestland. Quantitative analysis , change detection matrix and land cove...
