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Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Cover Change

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Observing Land from Space: Science, Customers and Technology

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An extensive literature describing the use of remote sensing for land cover mapping has emerged since the launch of Landsat-1 in 1974. This includes numerous references to applications that purport to detect or measure change. However, many reported studies are either misleading, in that they describe limited environmental mapping exercises as “monitoring” or else are essentially case studies, limited to particular regions or time periods and designed principally to develop, test or demonstrate experimental techniques.

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  1. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood, UK

    B. K. Wyatt

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  1. Space Applications Institute, Ispra, Italy

    Michel M. Verstraete

  2. Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Image de l’Informatique et de la Télédétection, Université Louis Pasteur, Illkirch, France

    Massimo Menenti

  3. Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland

    Jouni Peltoniemi

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Wyatt, B.K. (2000). Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Cover Change. In: Verstraete, M.M., Menenti, M., Peltoniemi, J. (eds) Observing Land from Space: Science, Customers and Technology. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48124-3_14

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