Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover
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Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Principles and Applications

  1. 477 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Principles and Applications

About this book

Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of how remote sensing can be used for land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring from the local to the global scale. With contributions by leading scientists from aro

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781420070743
eBook ISBN
9781420070750
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Editor
  7. Contributors
  8. Chapter 1: Brief Overview of Remote Sensing of Land Cover
  9. Chapter 2: History of Land-Cover Mapping
  10. Chapter 3: Semantic Issues in Land-Cover Analysis : Representation, Analysis, and Visualization
  11. Chapter 4: Overview of Land-Cover Classifications and Their Interoperability
  12. Chapter 5: Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts
  13. Chapter 6: Evaluating Land-Cover Legends Using the UN Land-Cover Classification System
  14. Chapter 7: Long-Term Satellite Data Records for Land-Cover Monitoring
  15. Chapter 8: Preprocessing : Need for Sensor Calibration
  16. Chapter 9: Classification Trees and Mixed Pixel Training Data
  17. Chapter 10: Comparison between New Digital Image Classification Methods and Traditional Methods for Land-Cover Mapping
  18. Chapter 11: Land-Cover Change Detection
  19. Chapter 12: Supervised Classification Approaches for the Development of Land-Cover Time Series
  20. Chapter 13: Forest-Cover Change Detection Using Support Vector Machines
  21. Chapter 14: Global Land-Cover Map Validation Experiences: Toward the Characterization of Quantitative Uncertainty
  22. Chapter 15: Role of Remote Sensing for Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Modeling
  23. Chapter 16: Operational Service Demonstration for Global Land-Cover Mapping : The GlobCover and GlobCorine Experiences for 2005 and 2009
  24. Chapter 17: Continental and Regional Approaches for Improving Land-Cover Maps of Africa
  25. Chapter 18: Land-Cover Mapping in Tropical Asia
  26. Chapter 19: Land Cover and Its Change in Europe: 1990–2006
  27. Chapter 20: North American Land-Change Monitoring System
  28. Chapter 21: The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS Satellite Data for Continental Land-Cover Mapping over South America : Results and Caveats
  29. Chapter 22: Mapping Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in China
  30. Chapter 23: An Approach to Assess Land-Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States (1973–2000)
  31. Chapter 24: Is Africa Losing Its Natural Vegetation? : Monitoring Trajectories of Land-Cover Change Using Landsat Imagery
  32. Chapter 25: The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program : Research Agenda and Progress (2005–2011)
  33. Chapter 26: 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
  34. Back Cover