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.
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.
David Garcķa Įlvarez holds Ph.D. and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geology, Geography and Environment, at the University of Alcalį, Spain. He has previously worked at the University of Granada and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. His research interests include land-use cover change mapping and modelling, uncertainty of spatial data, shared economies in the accommodation sector and the analysis of regional and local territorial dynamics.
Marķa Teresa Camacho Olmedo holds Ph.D. and is a tenured professor at the Department of Geographical Regional Analysis and Physical Geography, at the University of Granada, Spain. Dr. Camacho Olmedo leads the project entitled Suitability and Uncertainty of Land Use and Cover Maps for the Analysis and Modelling of Territorial Dynamics (INCERTIMAPS), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the FEDER European Regional Development Fund (ref. PGC2018-100770-B-100) (2019-2021), after successfully completing various other competitive projects since 2003. Her current research includes land-use and land-cover modelling, simulation models and scenarios, and territorial dynamics. She has published numerous scientific papers and books.
Martin Paegelow holds Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of Geography, Land Planning and Environment at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurčs, France, and member of Geography of Environment (GEODE) UMR 5602 CNRS laboratory. In 1991, he obtained a Ph.D. in geography and was accredited to supervise research in 2004. He is a specialist in environmental geography and geomatics. His principal research areas are environmental management and geomatic solutions with a special focus on geomatic land change modelling and its validation. He is also strongly committed to the teaching side of his job, and since 2004, has been the co-director of the Masters Degree in Geomatics in Toulouse.
Jean Francois Mas holds Ph.D. and is a tenured professor in the Center of Research in Environmental Geography (Centro de Investigaciones en Geografķa Ambiental, CIGA) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). He specializes in the fields of remote sensing, geographical information science, and spatial modelling. His research interests include land-use/land-cover change monitoring and modelling, accuracy assessment of spatial data, forest inventory, and vegetation cartography. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications, advised 9 Ph.D. dissertations, supervised 15 masters degree students, and participated in 35 research projects.
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