Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Framework Conditions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Remote Sensing in Support of the Geo-information in Europe

      • Ioannis Manakos, Samantha Lavender

      Pages 3-10

   3. Global Land Cover Mapping: Current Status and Future Trends

      • Brice Mora, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Martin Herold, Olivier Arino

      Pages 11-30

   4. The Users’ Role in the European Land Monitoring Context

      • Núria Blanes Guàrdia, Tim Green, Alejandro Simón

      Pages 31-41

   5. Towards an European Land Cover Monitoring Service and High-Resolution Layers

      • Steffen Kuntz, Elisabeth Schmeer, Markus Jochum, Geoffrey Smith

      Pages 43-52

3. Operational European Mapping and Monitoring Services

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. CORINE Land Cover and Land Cover Change Products

      • György Büttner

      Pages 55-74

   3. European Area Frame Sampling Based on Very High Resolution Images

      • Marek Banaszkiewicz, Geoffrey Smith, Javier Gallego, Sebastian Aleksandrowicz, Stanislaw Lewinski, Andrzej Kotarba et al.

      Pages 75-88

   4. European Forest Monitoring Approaches

      • Markus Probeck, Gernot Ramminger, David Herrmann, Sharon Gomez, Thomas Häusler

      Pages 89-114

   5. The European Urban Atlas

      • Enrique Montero, Joeri Van Wolvelaer, Antonio Garzón

      Pages 115-124

4. State of the Art Mapping Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. A Review of Modern Approaches to Classification of Remote Sensing Data

      • Lorenzo Bruzzone, Begüm Demir

      Pages 127-143

   3. Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Change Detection – A Review

      • Antje Hecheltjen, Frank Thonfeld, Gunter Menz

      Pages 145-178

   4. Synergies from SAR-Optical Data Fusion for LULC Mapping

      • Björn Waske

      Pages 179-191

   5. Application of an Object-Oriented Method for Classification of VHR Satellite Images Using a Rule-Based Approach and Texture Measures

      • Stanislaw Lewinski, Zbigniew Bochenek, Konrad Turlej

      Pages 193-201

   6. Remote Sensing of Vegetation for Nature Conservation

      • Sebastian Schmidtlein, Ulrike Faude, Stefanie Stenzel, Hannes Feilhauer

      Pages 203-215

   7. Modeling Urban Sprawl

      • Roland Goetzke

      Pages 217-233

5. National Practice Examples

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Land Information System Austria (LISA)

      • Gebhard Banko, Reinfried Mansberger, Heinz Gallaun, Roland Grillmayer, Rainer Prüller, Manfred Riedl et al.

      Pages 237-254

 Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its different patterns of utilization superimposed on the natural vegetation. LULC is a core information layer for a variety of scientific and administrative tasks(e.g. hydrological modelling, climate models, land use planning).In particular in the context of climate change with its impacts on socio-economic, socio-ecologic systems as well as ecosystem services precise information on LULC and LUCC are mandatory baseline datasets required over large areas. Remote sensing can provide such information on different levels of detail and in a homogeneous and reliable way. Hence, LULC mapping can be regarded as a prototype for integrated approaches based on spaceborne and airborne remote sensing techniques combined with field observations. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive view of various LULC activities focusing on European initiatives, such as the LUCAS surveys, the CORINE land covers, the ESA/EU GMES program and its resulting Fast-Track- and Downstream Services, the EU JRC Global Land Cover, the ESA GlobCover project as well as the ESA initiative on Essential Climate Variables. All have and are producing highly appreciated land cover products. The book will cover the operational approaches, but also review current state-of-the-art scientific methodologies and recommendations for this field. It opens the view with best-practice examples that lead to a view that exceeds pure mapping, but to investigate into drivers and causes as well as future projections.

• change detection
• classification
• image processing
• land use & land cover
• remote sensing
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• Information Technologies Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Ioannis Manakos

• Department of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Matthias Braun

Dr. Ioannis Manakos is a Researcher in ‘Remote Sensing’ at the Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, an Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, where he headed the Department of the Geoinformation in Environmental Management for 7 years, cooperates with the Group on Earth Observations for the Global Land Cover Task, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories. During his studies he specialized in spectroradiometric measurements and reflectance modeling (PhD at the Technical University of Munich), and satellite image and geospatial data analysis (MSc and Diploma at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) for applications related with Agriculture, Environment and Physical Geography. He has been coordinating or participating in numerous EU, bilateral, and national projects (FPs, INTERREGs, etc.) for more than a decade. Activity topics concerned Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), Space and Airborne Remote Sensing and its Complementation and Synergy with in-situ measurements, Environmental Resources Management, Soil Erosion Risk Assessment, Agricultural Practice Monitoring, Precision Agriculture, Regional and Rural Development, Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Tourism. Numerous articles and studies of his have been published in Journals, Books, and Workshops.

Matthias Braun has studied at the University of Freiburg (PhD) and the University of Bonn. He is Chairman of the EARSeL special interest group on remote sensing of land use and land cover, as well as scientific Co-editor of EARSeL eProceedings. He is currently Associate Professor at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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