Land Cover Classification System

Land Cover Classification System

Author: Antonio Di Gregorio

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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Part A- Land cover classification system: a dichotomous, modular-hierarchical approach classification concepts; Part B Land cover classification system: user manual.


Land Cover Classification System

Land Cover Classification System

Author: Antonio Di Gregorio

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9789251053270

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"Based on the original software version 1 prepared by Antonio Di Gregorio and Louisa J.M. Jansen."


Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover

Author: Chandra P. Giri

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1420070754

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Filling the need for a comprehensive book that covers both theory and application, Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications provides a synopsis of how remote sensing can be used for land-cover characterization, mapping, and monitoring from the local to the global scale. With contributions by leading scientists from aro


Linking People, Place, and Policy

Linking People, Place, and Policy

Author: Stephen J. Walsh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1461509858

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Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach describes a breadth of research associated with the study of human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on land use and land cover dynamics. This book examines the social, biophysical, and geographical drivers of land use and land cover patterns and their dynamics, which are interpreted within a policy-relevant context. Concepts, tools, and techniques within Geographic Information Science serve as the unifying methodological framework in which landscapes in Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Cambodia, China, Brazil, Nepal, and the United States are examined through analyses conducted using quantitative, qualitative, and image-based techniques. Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach addresses a need for a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of GIScience for research and study within the context of human-environment interactions. The human dimensions research community, land use and land cover change programs, and human and landscape ecology communities, among others, are collectively viewing the landscape within a spatially-explicit perspective, where people are viewed as agents of landscape change that shape and are shaped by the landscape, and where landscape form and function are assessed within a space-time context. This book articulates some of these challenges and opportunities.


Changes in Land Use and Land Cover

Changes in Land Use and Land Cover

Author: William B. Meyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-09-15

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9780521470858

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This book analyses the impact of human activities on the Earth's surface and environment.


TORUS 2 - Toward an Open Resource Using Services

TORUS 2 - Toward an Open Resource Using Services

Author: Dominique Laffly

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-04-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1119720532

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This book, presented in three volumes, examines environmental disciplines in relation to major players in contemporary science: Big Data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Today, there is a real sense of urgency regarding the evolution of computer technology, the ever-increasing volume of data, threats to our climate and the sustainable development of our planet. As such, we need to reduce technology just as much as we need to bridge the global socio-economic gap between the North and South; between universal free access to data (open data) and free software (open source). In this book, we pay particular attention to certain environmental subjects, in order to enrich our understanding of cloud computing. These subjects are: erosion; urban air pollution and atmospheric pollution in Southeast Asia; melting permafrost (causing the accelerated release of soil organic carbon in the atmosphere); alert systems of environmental hazards (such as forest fires, prospective modeling of socio-spatial practices and land use); and web fountains of geographical data. Finally, this book asks the question: in order to find a pattern in the data, how do we move from a traditional computing model-based world to pure mathematical research? After thorough examination of this topic, we conclude that this goal is both transdisciplinary and achievable.


Advancing Land Change Modeling

Advancing Land Change Modeling

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0309288363

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People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth's surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs). LCMs are a key means for understanding how humans are reshaping the Earth's surface in the past and present, for forecasting future landscape conditions, and for developing policies to manage our use of resources and the environment at scales ranging from an individual parcel of land in a city to vast expanses of forests around the world. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM approaches, suggests guidance for their appropriate application, and makes recommendations to improve the integration of observation strategies into the models. This report provides a summary and evaluation of several modeling approaches, and their theoretical and empirical underpinnings, relative to complex land-change dynamics and processes, and identifies several opportunities for further advancing the science, data, and cyberinfrastructure involved in the LCM enterprise. Because of the numerous models available, the report focuses on describing the categories of approaches used along with selected examples, rather than providing a review of specific models. Additionally, because all modeling approaches have relative strengths and weaknesses, the report compares these relative to different purposes. Advancing Land Change Modeling's recommendations for assessment of future data and research needs will enable model outputs to better assist the science, policy, and decisionsupport communities.


Register implementation for land cover legends

Register implementation for land cover legends

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9251345600

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Land cover assessment and monitoring of its dynamics are essential requirements for the sustainable management of natural resources, environmental protection, food security, humanitarian programmes as well as core data for monitoring and modelling. Land Cover (LC) data are therefore fundamental in fulfilling the mandates of many United Nations (UN), international and national institutions and programmes. Despite the recognition of such importance, current users of LC data still lack access to sufficient reliable or comparable baseline LC data. These data are essential to tackle the increasing concerns in regard to food security, environmental degradation, and climate change. Critically, maintaining and restoring land resources plays a vital task in tackling climate change, securing biodiversity, and maintaining crucial ecosystem services, while ensuring resilient livelihoods and food security.