Land Use and Land Cover Semantics Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects

Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental Context Focused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practi...

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Main Author Ahlqvist, Ola
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published United States CRC Press 2015
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Geographic information systems
Geomorphology
Land cover
Land use
Landscape changes
Natural history
Planning
Semantic computing
Semantic Plasticity
Crowdsourcing Landscape Perceptions
Ontology
Land Cover Classification System
semantic specifications
Data Set
Big Data issues
Land Planning
Semantic Information
LULC classification
The EAGLE Concept
Ew
Landscape Mapping
LC Classification
Single Land Cover Class
Global Land Cover Datasets
Tegon
ODP
Eagle
Land Cover Classes
Swedish NFI
SPARQL Queries
Semantic Overlap
Land Cover Groups
Li Ne
Land Cover
Text Mining Analysis
Rest Service
Corine Land Cover
Land Cover Nomenclature
Land Cover Classification
Data Interoperability
Cover Area Frame Survey
Land Monitoring
LC Class
International Harmonization
Land Cover Datasets
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Land Use/Land Cover Classification Systems and Their Relationship to Land Planning -- Chapter 2: Ontology for National Land Use/Land Cover Map: Poland Case Study -- Chapter 3: The Need for Awareness of Semantic Plasticity in International Harmonization of Geographical Information: Seen from a Nordic Forest Classification Perspective -- Chapter 4: Parameterized Approaches to the Categorization of Land Use and Land Cover -- Chapter 5: Eliciting and Formalizing the Intricate Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Class Definitions -- Chapter 6: The EAGLE Concept: A Paradigm Shift in Land Monitoring -- Chapter 7: An Applied Ontology for Semantics Associated with Surface Water Features -- Chapter 8: Land Type Categories as a Complement to Land Use and Land Cover Attributes in Landscape Mapping and Monitoring -- Chapter 9: Text Mining Analysis of Land Cover Semantic Overlap -- Chapter 10: LC3: A Spatiotemporal Data Model to Study Qualified Land Cover Changes -- Chapter 11: Applying Tegon, the Elementary Physical Land Cover Feature, for Data Interoperability -- Chapter 12: Resolving Semantic Heterogeneities in Land Use and Land Cover -- Chapter 13: Crowdsourcing Landscape Perceptions to Validate Land Cover Classifications -- Back Cover