{"product_id":"land-use-and-land-cover-semantics-9781482237399","title":"Land Use and Land Cover Semantics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental Context\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, \u003cb\u003eLand Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects\u003c\/b\u003e presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC. Developed by a team of experts bridging relevant areas related to the subject (LULC studies, ontology, semantic uncertainty, information science, and earth observation), this book encourages effective and critical uses of LULC data and considers practical contexts where LULC semantics can play a vital role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes work on conceptual and technological semantic practices, including but not limited to categorization; the definition of criteria for sets and their members; metadata; documentation fo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book is a collection of articles written by well-known scientists in Spatial Information Science. The book editors and reviewers led by Dr. Ahlqvist – recognized specialist in the land use and land cover data treatment, provide careful selection and high quality of published material. I find this book to be a timely and helpful resource that gathers many different strands of quality research on increasingly pressing issues around the integrated use of land use and land cover data.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Sergei Levashkin, Visual Intelligence LP, Houston, Texas, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLand Use\/Land Cover Classification Systems and Their Relationship to Land Planning.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003eOntology for National Land Use\/Land Cover Map: Poland Case Study\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eThe Need for Awareness of Semantic Plasticity in International Harmonization of Geographical Information: Seen from a Nordic Forest Classification Perspective\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eParameterized Approaches to the Categorization of Land Use and Land Cover\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eEliciting and Formalizing the Intricate Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Class Definitions\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eThe EAGLE Concept: A Paradigm Shift in Land Monitoring\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAn Applied Ontology for Semantics Associated with Surface Water Features\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eLand Type Categories as a Complement to Land Use and Land Cover Attributes in Landscape Mapping and Monitoring\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eText Mining Analysis of Land Cover Semantic Overlap\u003c\/b\u003e . \u003cb\u003eLC: A Spatial-temporal Data Model to Study Qualified Land Cover Changes\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eApplying Tegon, the Elementary Physical Land Cover Feature, for Data Interoperability\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eResolving Semantic Heterogeneities in Land Use and Land Cover\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eCrowdsourcing Landscape Perceptions to Validate Land Cover Classifications\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apple Academic Press Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409113293143,"sku":"9781482237399","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781482237399.jpg?v=1730505486","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/land-use-and-land-cover-semantics-9781482237399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}