Series Preface ................................................. ix
Preface ......................................................... 1
Acknowledgments .............................................. xiii
Editor ......................................................... xv
Contributors ................................................. xvii
SECTION I Overview
Chapter 1 Brief Overview of Remote Sensing of Land Cover ....... 3
Chandra P. Giri
Chapter 2 History of Land-Cover Mapping ....................... 13
Thomas R. Loveland
SECTION II Basic Principles
Chapter 3 Semantic Issues in Land-Cover Analysis:
Representation, Analysis, and Visualization ......... 25
Ola Ahlqvist
Chapter 4 Overview of Land-Cover Classifications and Their
Interoperability .................................... 37
Antonio Di Gregorio and Douglas O'Brien
Chapter 5 Revisiting Land-Cover Mapping Concepts .............. 49
Pierre Defourny and Sophie Bontemps
Chapter 6 Evaluating Land-Cover Legends Using the UN
Land-Cover Classification System .................... 65
Martin Herold and Antonio Di Gregorio
Chapter 7 Long-Term Satellite Data Records for Land-Cover
Monitoring .......................................... 91
Sangram Ganguly
Chapter 8 Preprocessing: Need for Sensor Calibration ......... 113
Gyanesh Chander
Chapter 9 Classification Trees and Mixed Pixel Training Data . 127
Matthew C. Hansen
Chapter 10 Comparison between New Digital Image
Classification Methods and Traditional Methods for
Land-Cover Mapping ................................. 137
Alberto Jesús Perea Moreno and José Emilio Merono
De Larriva
Chapter 11 Land-Cover Change Detection ........................ 153
Xuexia (Sherry) Chen, Chandra P. Giri, and James
E. Vogelmann
Chapter 12 Supervised Classification Approaches for the
Development of Land-Cover Time Series .............. 177
Darren Pouliot, Rasim Latifovic, Ian Olthof, and
Robert Fraser
Chapter 13 Forest-Cover Change Detection Using Support
Vector Machines .................................... 191
Chengquan Huang and Kuan Song
Chapter 14 Global Land-Cover Map Validation Experiences:
Toward the Characterization of Uncertainty ......... 207
Pierre Defourny, Philippe Mayaux, Martin Herold,
and Sophie Bontemps
Chapter 15 Role of Remote Sensing for Land-Use and Land-Cover
Change Modeling .................................... 225
Terry Sohl and Benjamin Sleeter
SECTION III Application Examples
Chapter 16 Operational Service Demonstration for Global
Land-Cover Mapping: The GlobCover and GlobCorine
Experiences for 2005 and 2009 ...................... 243
Sophie Bontemps, Olivier Arino, Patrice Bicheron,
Christelle Carsten Brockman, Marc Leroy,
Christelle Vancutsem, and Pierre Defourny
Chapter 17 Continental and Regional Approaches for
Improving Land-Cover Maps of Africa ................ 265
Philippe Mayaux, Christelle Vancutsem,
Jean-Franqois Pekel, Carlos de Wasseige, Pierre
Defourny, Matthew C. Hansen, and Landing Mane
Chapter 18 Land-Cover Mapping in Tropical Asia ................ 275
Hans-Jurgen Stibig and Chandra P. Giri
Chapter 19 Land Cover and Its Change in Europe: 1990-2006 ..... 285
Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, and
Gabriel Jaffrain
Chapter 20 North American Land-Change Monitoring System ....... 303
Rasim Latifovic, Colin Homer, Rainer Ressl, Darren
Pouliot, Sheikh Nazmul Hossain, Renй R. Colditz,
Ian Olthof, Chandra P. Giri, andArturo Victoria
Chapter 21 The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS
Satellite Data for Continental Land-Cover Mapping
over South America: Results and Caveats ............ 325
Lorena Hojas Gascon, Hugh Douglas Eva, Nadine
Gobron, Dario Simonetti, and Steffen Fritz
Chapter 22 Mapping Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in China ... 339
Xiangzheng Deng and Jiyuan Liu
Chapter 23 An Approach to Assess Land-Cover Trends in the
Conterminous United States (1973-2000) ............. 351
Roger F. Auch, Mark A. Drummond, Kristi L. Sayler,
Alisa L. Gallant, and William Acevedo
Chapter 24 Is Africa Losing Its Natural Vegetation?
Monitoring Trajectories of Land-Cover Change Using
Landsat Imagery .................................... 369
Andreas Bernhard Brink, Hugh Douglas Eva, and
Catherine Bodart
SECTION IV Looking Ahead
Chapter 25 The NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program:
Research Agenda and Progress (2005-2011) ........... 379
Garik Gutman, Chris Justice, and LeeAnn King
Chapter 26 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 .................................. 397
Martin Herold, Lammert Kooistra, Annemarie van
Groenestijn, Pierre Defourny, Chris Schmullius,
Vasileios Kalogirou, and Olivier Arino
Index ......................................................... 415
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