Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools Validation Practices with QGIS /

• Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Autres auteurs: García-Álvarez, David (Éditeur intellectuel), Camacho Olmedo, María Teresa (Éditeur intellectuel), Paegelow, Martin (Éditeur intellectuel), Mas, Jean François (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique eBook
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
• Édition: 1st ed. 2022.
• Sujets: Geographic information systems.; Cartography.; Physical geography.; Geographical Information System.; Earth System Sciences.
• Accès en ligne: Link to Metadata

Résumé

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.

Description matérielle

XIV, 462 p. 273 illus., 226 illus. in color. online resource.

ISBN

9783030909987

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-90998-7

Accès

Open Access