History of land cover mapping
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Abstract
The historical roots of land-cover mapping reside in the early history of aerial photography and applications spanning forestry, agriculture, urban planning, and water-resources management. Considering this long span of mapping, any attempt to provide an exhaustive treatment of the full history of land-cover mapping will necessarily be incomplete. For that reason, this chapter on the history of land-cover mapping emphasizes the “modern” era of land-cover mapping, which has been arbitrarily defined to begin in the early 1970s. This was when civil space-based remote sensing came of age, and intellectual efforts focused on strategies for using new observations in understanding the characteristics of, and the changes in, land use and land cover.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | History of land cover mapping |
| Chapter | 2 |
| DOI | 10.1201/b11964-4 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Remote sensing of land use and land cover: Principles and applications |
| First page | 13 |
| Last page | 22 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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