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  • Remote sensing
  • Historical geography

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  • Accurate spatial data on rural settlements is crucial for understanding spatial evolution.
  • Historical satellite imagery offers a valuable, yet often challenging, data source for such analyses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a high-precision method for acquiring spatial data of historical rural settlements.
  • To address the challenge of verifying land use information from historical satellite images.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized decrypted KeyHole military satellite images for spatial data acquisition.
  • Implemented a three-stage process: interpretation, validation, and resampling.
  • Developed a new method for confirming validation samples and employed a confusion matrix for accuracy assessment using ArcGIS 10.4.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a high Kappa value of 0.97, indicating excellent agreement in data accuracy.
  • Successfully verified the accuracy of sample data for historical land use.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method for high-precision spatial data acquisition.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method enables the acquisition of high-precision spatial data from historical rural settlements.
  • This approach overcomes limitations in verifying historical land use from satellite imagery.
  • The methodology is suitable for future applications in historical spatial data analysis.