Object-based image analysis was used to map land use in the Panxie coal mining area, East China, where long-term underground coal mines have been exploited since the 1980s.
Six (1987) and seven (2001, 2019) land use classes were recorded with overall accuracies from 84.8 to 85.3 percent. The area of coal open-pit and urban area increased from 5 percent in …