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Industry-scale land seismic data acquisition in the arid area requires an accurate land cover map to arrive at a safe, reliable, and successful project execution. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys offer a cheap, fast, and sustainable method with a low CO2 footprint to obtain an accurate orthomosaic image of the area. Cloth simulation filter, random forest algorithm, and conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) represent a spectrum of method complexity commonly utilized to classify land cover from UAV-based ortho imageries. This study investigates the applicability of the three abovementioned methods for land cover classification using UAV-based imageries tailored for seismic data acquisition in the arid area. With minor imprecision, CGAN outperforms the random forest algorithm and the cloth simulation filter in terms of accuracy. CGAN is exceptionally accel in classifying small features in densely-populated areas. However, if one only needs to separate the orthomosaic image into the ground and non-ground features, the cloth simulation filter coupled with edge detection gives the fastest result with acceptable accuracy.