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Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools Validation Practices with QGIS

This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: García-Álvarez, David (Editor), Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa (Editor), Paegelow, Martin (Editor), Mas, Jean François (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Subjects:
Cartography
Geographical Information System
Earth System Sciences
Physical Geography
Geographic Information Systems
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. About this book
  • Part I. Concepts, data and validation
  • Chapter 2. Land Use Cover mapping, modelling and validation. A background
  • Chapter 3. Validation of Land Use Cover maps: a guideline
  • Chapter 4. Land Use Cover Datasets: a review
  • Part II. Data access and visualization
  • Chapter 5. Visualization and communication of LUC data
  • Chapter 6. Sample data for thematic accuracy assessment in QGIS
  • Part III. Tools to validate Land Use Cover maps: a review
  • Chapter 7. Basic and Multiple-Resolution Cross Tabulation to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Chapter 8. Metrics based on a Cross-Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Chapter 9. Pontius Jr. methods based on a Cross Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Chapter 10. Validation of soft maps produced by a Land Use Cover Change model
  • Chapter 11. Spatial metrics to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Chapter12. Advanced pattern analysis to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Chapter 13. Geographically Weighted methods to validate Land Use Cover maps
  • Part IV. Land Use Cover datasets: a review
  • Chapter 14. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a single date,- Chapter 15. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a time series of maps
  • Chapter 16. General Land Use Cover datasets for Europe
  • Chapter 17. General Land Use Cover datasets for Africa
  • Chapter 18. General Land Use Cover datasets for America and Asia
  • Chapter 19. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing vegetation covers
  • Chapter 20. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing agricultural covers
  • Chapter 21. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing artificial covers
  • Chapter 22. Supra-national thematic Land Use Cover datasets

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