A 30m land use/cover change dataset from 1985 to 2020 in the floodplain of the lower Yellow River

By using random forest and human-computer interactive interpretation and confusion matrix accuracy evaluation, the land use/cover change data of the floodplain of the lower Yellow River in eight periods every five years from 1985 to 2020 were developed. The data has a spatial resolution of 30 m, with an overall accuracy of over 90% and a Kappa coefficient higher than 0.85. This dataset can provide scientific data for regional ecological protection, national spatial planning, coupled natural-human system processes, mechanisms, measurements in typical regions of the Yellow River Basin.