editado por Chandra P. Giri. -- Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2012.

xx, 425 p.; 26 cm. -- (Remote sensing applications ; 8)

ISBN 978-1-4200-7074-3.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Overview -- Brief overview of remote sensing of land cover -- History of land-cover maping -- Basic principles -- Semantic issues in land-cover analysis: representation, analysis, and visualization -- Overview of land-cover classifications and their interoperability -- Revisiting land-cover mapping concepts -- Evaluating land-cover legends using the UN land-cover -- Long-term satellite data records for land-cover monitoring -- Preprocessing: need for sensor calibration -- Classification trees and mixed pixel training data -- Comparison between new digital image classification methods and traditional methods for land-cover mapping -- Land-cover change detection -- Supervised classification approaches for the development of land-cover time series -- Forest-cover change detection using support vector machines -- Global land-cover map validation experiences: toward the characterization of uncertainty -- Role of remote sensing for land-use and land-cover change modeling -- Application examples -- Operational service demonstration for global land-cover mapping: the GlobCover and GlobCorine experiences for 2005 and 2009 -- Continental and regional approaches for improving land-cover maps of Africa -- Land-cover mapping in tropical Asia -- Land cover and its change in Europe: 1990-2006 -- North America land-change monitoring system -- The application of medium-resolution MERIS satellite data for continental land-cover mapping over South America: results and caveats -- Mapping land-cover and land-use changes in China -- An approach to assess land-cover trends in the conterminous United States (1973-2000) -- Is Africa losing its natural vegetation? Monitoring trajectories of land-cover change using landsat imagery -- Looking ahead -- The NASA land-cover and land-use change program: research agenda and progress (2005-2011) -- 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.