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Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover-Principles and Applications


Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover-Principles and Applications


Contents

Series Preface....................................................................................................................................ix
Preface..............................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments.......................................................................................................................... xiii
Editor...............................................................................................................................................xv
Contributors...................................................................................................................................xvii



Section I Overview

Chapter 1 Brief Overview of Remote Sensing of Land Cover.......................................................3
Chandra P. Giri
Chapter 2 History of Land-Cover Mapping................................................................................. 13
Thomas R. Loveland

Section II Basic Principles

Chapter 3 Semantic Issues in Land-Cover Analysis: Representation, Analysis, and
Visualization...............................................................................................................25
Ola Ahlqvist

Chapter 4 Overview of Land-Cover Classifications and Their Interoperability..........................37
Antonio Di Gregorio and Douglas O’Brien


Chapter 5 Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts.................................................................49
Pierre Defourny and Sophie Bontemps

Chapter 6 Evaluating Land-Cover Legends Using the UN Land-Cover
Classification System...................................................................................................65
Martin Herold and Antonio Di Gregorio

Chapter 7 Long-Term Satellite Data Records for Land-Cover Monitoring................................. 91
Sangram Ganguly

Chapter 8 Preprocessing: Need for Sensor Calibration............................................................. 113
Gyanesh Chander


Chapter 9 Classification Trees and Mixed Pixel Training Data................................................ 127
Matthew C. Hansen

Chapter 10 Comparison between New Digital Image Classification Methods and
Traditional Methods for Land-Cover Mapping......................................................... 137
Alberto Jesús Perea Moreno and José Emilio Meroño De Larriva

Chapter 11 Land-Cover Change Detection.................................................................................. 153
Xuexia (Sherry) Chen, Chandra P. Giri, and James E. Vogelmann

Chapter 12 Supervised Classification Approaches for the Development of Land-Cover
Time Series................................................................................................................ 177
Darren Pouliot, Rasim Latifovic, Ian Olthof, and Robert Fraser


Chapter 13 Forest-Cover Change Detection Using Support Vector Machines............................ 191
Chengquan Huang and Kuan Song

Chapter 14 Global Land-Cover Map Validation Experiences: Toward the Characterization
of Uncertainty...........................................................................................................207
Pierre Defourny, Philippe Mayaux, Martin Herold, and Sophie Bontemps

Chapter 15 Role of Remote Sensing for Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Modeling.............225
Terry Sohl and Benjamin Sleeter


Section III Application Examples

Chapter 16 Operational Service Demonstration for Global Land-Cover Mapping: The
GlobCover and GlobCorine Experiences for 2005 and 2009...................................243
Sophie Bontemps, Olivier Arino, Patrice Bicheron, Christelle Carsten
Brockman, Marc Leroy, Christelle Vancutsem, and Pierre Defourny

Chapter 17 Continental and Regional Approaches for Improving
Land-Cover Maps of Africa......................................................................................265
Philippe Mayaux, Christelle Vancutsem, Jean-François Pekel, Carlos de
Wasseige, Pierre Defourny, Matthew C. Hansen, and Landing Mane

Chapter 18 Land-Cover Mapping in Tropical Asia..................................................................... 275
Hans-Jurgen Stibig and Chandra P. Giri


Chapter 19 Land Cover and Its Change in Europe: 1990–2006..................................................285
Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, and Gabriel Jaffrain

Chapter 20 North American Land-Change Monitoring System.................................................303
Rasim Latifovic, Colin Homer, Rainer Ressl, Darren Pouliot, Sheikh Nazmul
Hossain, René R. Colditz, Ian Olthof, Chandra P. Giri, and Arturo Victoria

Chapter 21 The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS Satellite Data for Continental
Land-Cover Mapping over South America: Results and Caveats............................. 325
Lorena Hojas Gascon, Hugh Douglas Eva, Nadine Gobron, Dario Simonetti,
and Steffen Fritz


Chapter 22 Mapping Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in China........................................... 339
Xiangzheng Deng and Jiyuan Liu

Chapter 23 An Approach to Assess Land-Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States
(1973–2000)............................................................................................................... 351
Roger F. Auch, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi L. Sayler, Alisa L. Gallant, and
William Acevedo

Chapter 24 Is Africa Losing Its Natural Vegetation? Monitoring Trajectories of
Land-Cover Change Using Landsat Imagery............................................................369
Andreas Bernhard Brink, Hugh Douglas Eva, and Catherine Bodart

Section IV Looking Ahead

Chapter 25 The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program: Research Agenda and
Progress (2005–2011)................................................................................................ 379
Garik Gutman, Chris Justice, and LeeAnn King

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.......................397
Martin Herold, Lammert Kooistra, Annemarie van Groenestijn, Pierre
Defourny, Chris Schmullius, Vasileios Kalogirou, and Olivier Arino

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