Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools

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.- Chapter 12. 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