Land Use Cover Datasets And Validation Tools

Download or read book Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools written by David García-Álvarez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.