Chapter 1. About this book
Part I. Concepts, data and validation
Chapter 2. Land Use Cover mapping, modelling and validation. A background
Chapter 3. Validation of Land Use Cover maps: a guideline
Chapter 4. Land Use Cover Datasets: a review
Part II. Data access and visualization
Chapter 5. Visualization and communication of LUC data
Chapter 6. Sample data for thematic accuracy assessment in QGIS
Part III. Tools to validate Land Use Cover maps: a review
Chapter 7. Basic and Multiple-Resolution Cross Tabulation to validate Land Use Cover maps
Chapter 8. Metrics based on a Cross-Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps
Chapter 9. Pontius Jr. methods based on a Cross Tabulation matrix to validate Land Use Cover maps
Chapter 10. Validation of soft maps produced by a Land Use Cover Change model
Chapter 11. Spatial metrics to validate Land Use Cover maps
Chapter 12. Advanced pattern analysis to validate Land Use Cover maps
Chapter 13. Geographically Weighted methods to validate Land Use Cover maps
Part IV. Land Use Cover datasets: a review
Chapter 14. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a single date,- Chapter 15. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a time series of maps
Chapter 16. General Land Use Cover datasets for Europe
Chapter 17. General Land Use Cover datasets for Africa
Chapter 18. General Land Use Cover datasets for America and Asia
Chapter 19. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing vegetation covers
Chapter 20. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing agricultural covers
Chapter 21. Global thematic Land Use Cover datasets characterizing artificial covers
Chapter 22. Supra-national thematic Land Use Cover datasets.