Dynamic Land Cover Dataset version 2: 2001-now…a land cover odyssey

Author

Lymburner, Leo ; Tan, Ping ; McIntyre, Alexis ; Lewis, Andrew ; Thankappan, Medhavy

Author_Institution

Nat. Earth Obs. Group, Geosci. Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

3297

Lastpage

3300

Abstract

Understanding how land cover responds to natural and anthropogenic drivers is critical as increasing population, climate fluctuations and competing land uses place increased pressure on both natural and food/fibre production systems. The Dynamic Land Cover Dataset (DLCD) Version 2 is a series of biennial land cover maps that uses the ISO 19144-2 land cover classification scheme. The Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time series [1] are used to characterize greenness dynamics observed at 250-metre scale. These greenness dynamics are used to generate a series of 9 land cover maps. Version 2 of the DLCD provides a series of land cover maps updated on an annual basis to enable resource managers, decision makers and biophysical modelers to track the change in land cover on a systematic basis.

Keywords

cartography; climatology; land cover; land use; radiometry; remote sensing; time series; vegetation mapping; AD 2001; DLCD version 2; EVI time series; ISO 19144-2 land cover classification scheme; MODIS; biennial land cover map series; biophysical modelers; climate fluctuations; competing land use place increased pressure; decision makers; dynamic land cover dataset version 2; enhanced vegetation index; food-fibre production system; increasing population; land cover anthropogenic driver response; land cover change tracking; land cover map series generation; land cover natural driver response; land cover odyssey; moderate resolution image spectroradiometer; natural system; observed greenness dynamics characterization; resource managers; systematic basis; Australia; Earth; MODIS; Meteorology; Time series analysis; Vegetation mapping; Australia; MODIS; land cover;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723532

Filename

6723532