Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications
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- Includes case studies in each chapter from various parts of the world
- Presents examples and case studies from outstanding projects and programs conducted at the global, regional, and local scales
- Contains summaries at the end of each chapter for easy reference
- Covers the latest developments and future perspectives in remote sensing of land use and land cover
Summary
This book discusses the fundamentals of land use/land cover characterization and mapping using remote sensing technology. It covers basic concepts of land use/land cover mapping, outlines an overview and history, enumerates today’s status and development, and determines the relationship between land cover and land use. It also considers the classification systems used with remotely sensed data, as well as state-of-the-art methods and techniques in data acquisition, pre-processing, classification, and accuracy assessment needed for land use/land cover characterization and mapping. Synthesizing decades of research conducted by leading scientists in the field, the text presents a new perspective on the subject.
Table of Contents
Overview
Brief Overview of Remote Sensing of Land Cover
Chandra Giri
History of Land-Cover Mapping
Thomas R. Loveland
Basic Principles
Semantic Issues in Land-Cover Analysis—Representation, Analysis, and Visualization
Ola Ahlqvist
Overview of Land-Cover Classifications and Their Interoperability
Antonio Di Gregorio and Doug O’Brien
Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts
Pierre Defourny and Sophie Bontemps
Evaluating Land-Cover Legends Using the UN Land-Cover Classification System
Martin Herold and Antonio Di Gregorio
Long-Term Satellite Data Records for Land-Cover Monitoring
Sangram Ganguly
Preprocessing: Need for Sensor Calibration
Gyanesh Chander
Classification Trees and Mixed Pixel Training Data
Matthew C. Hansen
Comparison between New Digital Image Classification Methods and Traditional Methods for Land-Cover Mapping
Alberto Jesús Perea Moreno and José Emilio Meroño
Land-Cover Change Detection
Xuexia (Sherry) Chen, Chandra Giri, and James E. Vogelmann
Supervised Classifi cation Approaches for the Development of Land-Cover Time Series
Darren Pouliot, Rasim Latifovic, Ian Olthof, and Robert Fraser
Forest-Cover Change Detection Using Support Vector Machines
Chengquan Huang and Kuan Song
Global Land-Cover Map Validation Experiences: Towards the Characterization of Uncertainty
Pierre Defourny, Philippe Mayaux, Martin Herold, and Sophie Bontemps
Role of Remote Sensing for Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Modeling
Terry Sohl and Benjamin Sleeter
Application Examples
Operational Service Demonstration for Global Land-Cover Mapping: The GlobCover and GlobCorine Experiences for 2005 and 2009
Sophie Bontemps, Oliver Arino, Patrice Bicheron, Christelle Carsten Brockman, Marc Leroy, Christelle Vancutsem, and Pierre Defourny
Continental and Regional Approaches for Improving Land-Cover Maps of Africa
Philippe Mayaux, Christelle Vancutsem, Jean-François Pekel, Carlos de Wasseige, Pierre Defourny, Matthew C. Hansen, and Landing Mane
Continental Applications in Tropical Asia
Hans-jurgen Stibig and Chandra Giri
Land Cover and Its Change in Europe: 1990–2006
Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, and Gabriel Jaffrain
North American Land Change Monitoring System
Rasim Latifovic, Colin Homer, Rainer Ressl, Darren Pouliot, Sheikh Nazmul Hossain, René R. Colditz, Ian Olthof, Chandra Giri, and Arturo Victoria
The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS Satellite Data for Continental Land-Cover Mapping over South America—Results and Caveats
Lorena Hojas Gascon, Hugh Douglas Eva, Nadine Gobron, Dario Simonetti,and Steffen Fritz
Mapping Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in China
Xiangzheng Deng and Jiyuan Liu
An Approach to Assess Land-Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States (1973–2000)
Roger F. Auch, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi L. Sayler, and Alisa L. Gallant
Is Africa Losing Its Natural Vegetation?—Monitoring Trajectories of Land-Cover Change Using Landsat Imagery
Andreas Bernhard Brink, Hugh Douglas Eva, and Catherine Bodart
Looking Ahead
The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program: Research Agenda and Progress (2005–2011)
Garik Gutman, Chris Justice, and LeeAnn King
Building Saliency, Legitimacy, and Credibility toward Operational Global and Regional Land-Cover Observations and Assessments in the Context of International Processes and Observing Essential Climate Variables
Martin Herold, Lammert Kooistra, Annemarie van Groenestijn, Pierre Defourny, Chris Schmullius, Vasileios Kalogirou, and Olivier Arino
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