Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe Practices & Trends

 Land use and land cover (LULC) as well as its changes (LUCC) are an interplay between bio-geophysical characteristics of the landscape and climate as well as the complex human interaction including its different patterns of utilization superimposed

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Ioannis Manakos Matthias Braun Editors

Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe Practices & Trends

Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing VOLUME 18 Series Editor:

EARSel Series Editor:

Freek D. van der Meer Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) Department of Earth Systems Analysis University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

Andre´ Marc¸al Department of Mathematics Faculty of Sciences University of Porto Porto, Portugal

Editorial Advisory Board:

EARSel Editorial Advisory Board:

Michael Abrams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Mario A. Gomarasca CNR - IREA Milan, Italy

Paul Curran City University London, U.K. Arnold Dekker CSIRO, Land and Water Division Canberra, Australia Steven M. de Jong Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University, The Netherlands Michael Schaepman Department of Geography University of Zurich, Switzerland

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6477

Martti Hallikainen Helsinki University of Technology Espoo, Finland Ha˚kan Olsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umea, Sweden Eberhard Parlow University of Basel Switzerland Rainer Reuter Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Germany

Ioannis Manakos • Matthias Braun Editors

Land Use and Land Cover Mapping in Europe Practices & Trends

Editors Ioannis Manakos Information Technologies Institute Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Thessaloniki, Greece

Matthias Braun Department of Geography University of Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg Erlangen, Germany

Responsible Series Editor: A. Marc¸al

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