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  <dc:contributor>Chandra P. Giri</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Thomas R. Loveland</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2012</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.1201/b11964-4</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>CRC Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>History of land cover mapping</dc:title>
  <dc:type>chapter</dc:type>
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