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Land use/land cover (LULC) are essential variables of the Earth’s system that are intimately connected with anthropogenic and physical environments (Chatziantoniou et al., 2017; Otukei and Blaschke, 2010). Explicit spatial information on land cover, that is to say, where things are, is useful for policy decisions on agricultural resource management, environmental and ecological protection, and native habitat mapping and restoration (Ireland and Petropoulos, 2015; Sanchez-Hernandez et al., 2007). In addition, thematic maps of land use/land cover (LULC) are also linked to systems for monitoring desertification and land degradation—key processes evident in many areas on the Earth experiencing ongoing climate change (Lamine et al., 2017; Singh et al., 2016). At local and regional scales, knowledge of LULC represents a basic dimension of resources available in any geographic