Despite being recognized as a key baseline dataset for many applications, especially those
relating to biogeochemical cycles, land cover products in their current form are limiting …

Considerable efforts have recently resulted in the development of global land cover data at
large spatial scales. The main objective of this study is a comparison of different AVHRR …

Eastern Europe has experienced drastic changes in political and economic conditions
following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Furthermore, these changes often differ among …

Background Area frame surveys represent a common approach to gather land cover and
land use data. In contrast to mapping techniques (eg the CORINE Land Cover project), they …

Boreal forests are a critical component of the global carbon cycle, and timely monitoring
allows for assessing forest cover change and its impacts on carbon dynamics. Earth …

Remote monitoring of natural afforestation processes on abandoned agricultural lands is
crucial for assessments and predictions of forest cover dynamics, biodiversity, ecosystem …

We review up-to-date, open access remote sensing (RS) products related to forest. We
created a hybrid forest/non-forest map using geographically weighted regression (GWR) …

The “land use” concept has evolved during recent decades and it is now considered as the
socioeconomic function of land. Land use representation and land use change assessment …

This chapter presents a review of Land Use Cover (LUC) datasets at global and
supranational scales. To this end, we differentiate between LUC maps (Sect. 3) and …

This paper describes a general framework alternative to the traditional surveys that are
commonly performed to estimate, for statistical purposes, the areal extent of predefined land …