Land cover to habitat map translation: Disambiguation rules based on Earth Observation data

Author

Adamo, M. ; Tarantino, C. ; Kosmidou, Vasiliki ; Petrou, Zisis ; Manakos, I. ; Lucas, Richard M. ; Tomaselli, V. ; Mucher, Casper A. ; Blonda, P.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Intell. Syst. for Autom. (ISSIA), Bari, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

3817

Lastpage

3820

Abstract

Earth Observation (EO) images have been extensively used to provide a synoptic view of land cover/use (LC/LU) patterns and land cover/use changes. Land covers are not as clearly relatable to biodiversity in comparison to habitat classifications which can provide more scope for biodiversity monitoring. The main purpose of the paper is to provide an automatic general framework for translating LC maps (in LCCS taxonomy) into habitat maps (in GHC taxonomy) by means of VHR remote sensing data.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; image classification; land cover; land use; terrain mapping; EO images; Earth Observation data; LC-LU changes; LC-LU patterns; LCCS taxonomy; VHR remote sensing data; biodiversity; disambiguation rules; habitat classification; land cover to habitat map translation; land use; synoptic view; Biodiversity; Earth; Europe; Indexes; Monitoring; Taxonomy; Vegetation mapping; EO data; Habitat; 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.2013.6723663

Filename

6723663