1st Edition

Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover Principles and Applications

Edited By Chandra P. Giri Copyright 2012
    480 Pages 65 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

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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 around the world, this well-structured volume offers an international perspective on the science, technologies, applications, and future needs of remote sensing of land cover and land use.

    After an overview of the key concepts and history of land-use and land-cover mapping, the book discusses the relationship between land cover and land use and addresses the land-cover classification system. It then presents state-of-the-art methods and techniques in data acquisition, preprocessing, image interpretation, and accuracy assessment for land-use and land-cover characterization and mapping.

    Case studies from around the world illustrate land-cover applications at global, continental, and national scales. These examples use multiple data sources and provide in-depth understanding of land cover and land-cover dynamics in multiple spatial, thematic, and temporal resolutions. Looking to the future, the book also identifies new frontiers in land-cover mapping and forecasting.

    The availability and accessibility of accurate and timely land-cover data sets play an important role in many global change studies, highlighting the need for better land-use and land-cover change information at multiple scales. A synthesis of current knowledge in remote sensing of land-use and land-cover science, this book promotes more effective use of Earth observation data and technology to assess, monitor, and manage land resources.

    Overview

    Brief Overview of Remote Sensing of Land Cover
    Chandra P. Giri

    History of Land-Cover Mapping
    Thomas R. Loveland

    Basic Principles

    Semantic Issues in Land-Cover Analysis: Representation, Analysis, and Visualization
    Ola Ahlqvist

    Overview of Land-Cover Classifications and Their Interoperability
    Antonio Di Gregorio and Doug O’Brien

    Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts
    Pierre Defourny and Sophie Bontemps

    Evaluating Land-Cover Legends Using the UN Land-Cover Classification System
    Martin Herold and Antonio Di Gregorio

    Long-Term Satellite Data Records for Land-Cover Monitoring
    Sangram Ganguly

    Preprocessing: Need for Sensor Calibration
    Gyanesh Chander

    Classification Trees and Mixed Pixel Training Data
    Matthew C. Hansen

    Comparison between New Digital Image Classification Methods and Traditional Methods for Land-Cover Mapping
    Alberto Jesús Perea Moreno and José Emilio Meroño De Larriva

    Land-Cover Change Detection
    Xuexia (Sherry) Chen, Chandra P. Giri, and James E. Vogelmann

    Supervised Classification Approaches for the Development of Land-Cover Time Series
    Darren Pouliot, Rasim Latifovic, Ian Olthof, and Robert Fraser

    Forest-Cover Change Detection Using Support Vector Machines
    Chengquan Huang and Kuan Song

    Global Land-Cover Map Validation Experiences: Toward the Characterization of Uncertainty
    Pierre Defourny, Philippe Mayaux, Martin Herold, and Sophie Bontemps

    Role of Remote Sensing for Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Modeling
    Terry Sohl and Benjamin Sleeter

    Application Examples

    Operational Service Demonstration for Global Land-Cover Mapping: The GlobCover and GlobCorine Experiences for 2005 and 2009
    Sophie Bontemps, Oliver Arino, Patrice Bicheron, Christelle Carsten Brockman, Marc Leroy, Christelle Vancutsem, and Pierre Defourny

    Continental and Regional Approaches for Improving Land-Cover Maps of Africa
    Philippe Mayaux, Christelle Vancutsem, Jean-François Pekel, Carlos de Wasseige, Pierre Defourny, Matthew C. Hansen, and Landing Mane

    Land-Cover Mapping in Tropical Asia
    Hans-Jurgen Stibig and Chandra P. Giri

    Land Cover and Its Change in Europe: 1990–2006
    Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, and Gabriel Jaffrain

    North American Land-Change Monitoring System
    Rasim Latifovic, Colin Homer, Rainer Ressl, Darren Pouliot, Sheikh Nazmul Hossain, René R. Colditz, Ian Olthof, Chandra P. Giri, and Arturo Victoria

    The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS Satellite Data for Continental Land-Cover Mapping over South America: Results and Caveats
    Lorena Hojas Gascon, Hugh Douglas Eva, Nadine Gobron, Dario Simonetti, and Steffen Fritz

    Mapping Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in China
    Xiangzheng Deng and Jiyuan Liu

    An Approach to Assess Land-Cover Trends in the Conterminous United States (1973–2000)
    Roger F. Auch, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi L. Sayler, and Alisa L. Gallant, and William Acevedo

    Is Africa Losing Its Natural Vegetation? Monitoring Trajectories of Land-Cover Change Using Landsat Imagery
    Andreas Bernhard Brink, Hugh Douglas Eva, and Catherine Bodart

    Looking Ahead

    The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program: Research Agenda and Progress (2005–2011)
    Garik Gutman, Chris Justice, and LeeAnn King

    Building Saliency, Legitimacy, and Credibility toward Operational Global and Regional Land-Cover Observations and Assessments in the Context of International Processes and Observing Essential Climate Variables
    Martin Herold, Lammert Kooistra, Annemarie van Groenestijn, Pierre Defourny, Chris Schmullius, Vasileios Kalogirou, and Olivier Arino

    Index

    Biography

    Chandra P. Giri, PhD, is a research physical scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, where he leads the International Land Cover and Biodiversity program. He is also a guest/adjunct faculty member at South Dakota State University. Prior to this, Dr. Giri worked for Columbia University in New York, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Asian Institute of Technology, and the Forest Department of Nepal. He has experience working in the private sector, academia, government, and international organizations at national, continental, and global levels in different parts of the world. He also serves as an expert in national and international working groups. Dr. Giri has more than 50 scientific publications to his credit and has received several awards from USGS, NASA, and other organizations.

    "Dr. Giri carefully selected and examined each contribution and created a well-structured volume in order to address the issues of land cover from the viewpoints of science, technology, practical application and future needs. This comprehensive approach presents the readers with both a systematic view of the field and a detailed knowledge of a particular topic."
    —From the Foreword by Qihao Weng, PhD, Hawthorn Woods, Indiana


    "… this book certainly met its objectives to present a comprehensive examination of one important and complex topic: land use and land cover. … valuable because it brings many key aspects of this topic under one cover. It will be a great addition to any personal library and a good choice for reading materials in seminar courses. … the editor and contributors make this book a success by presenting overviews, principles, applications, and future opportunities."
    —Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, November 2013