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Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe - Practices & Trends (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe - Practices & Trends (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, 18
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Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an
interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape
and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its
different patterns of utilization superimposed on the natural
vegetation. LULC is a core information layer for a variety of
scientific and administrative tasks(e.g. hydrological modelling,
climate models, land use planning).In particular in the context of
climate change with its impacts on socio-economic, socio-ecologic
systems as well as ecosystem services precise information on LULC
and LUCC are mandatory baseline datasets required over large areas.
Remote sensing can provide such information on different levels of
detail and in a homogeneous and reliable way. Hence, LULC mapping
can be regarded as a prototype for integrated approaches based on
spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques combined with
field observations. The book provides for the first time a
comprehensive view of various LULC activities focusing on European
initiatives, such as the LUCAS surveys, the CORINE land covers, the
ESA/EU GMES program and its resulting Fast-Track- and Downstream
Services, the EU JRC Global Land Cover, the ESA GlobCover project
as well as the ESA initiative on Essential Climate Variables. All
have and are producing highly appreciated land cover products. The
book will cover the operational approaches, but also review current
state-of-the-art scientific methodologies and recommendations for
this field. It opens the view with best-practice examples that lead
to a view that exceeds pure mapping, but to investigate into
drivers and causes as well as future projections.
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