Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
Validation Practices with QGIS
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Beschreibung
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 any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps and models. Besides, this book is enriched with practical exercises to be applied with QGIS.
The book includes a description of relevant global and supra-national LUC datasets currently available. Finally, the book provides the user with all the information required to manage and download these datasets.
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 any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps and models. Besides, this book is enriched with practical exercises to be applied with QGIS.
The book includes a description of relevant global and supra-national LUC datasets currently available. Finally, the book provides the user with all the information required to manage and download these datasets.
Represents up-to-date comprehensive review of theory and techniques to validate land-use cover information Provides detailed tutorials to easily apply most of the available validation techniques in open access GIS software Shows detailed review of LUC data currently available at global and continental scales Freely available to all readers, this book is open access
Autor*in
David García-Álvarez
Themen in »Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools«
Land Use Cover mapping Land Use Cover Change modelling Land Change science Uncertainty Validation exercises Accuracy Remote sensing Open Access