Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools

<div>Chapter 1.&nbsp;About this book.- Part I.&nbsp;Concepts, data and validation.- Chapter 2.&nbsp;Land Use Cover mapping, modelling and validation. A&nbsp;background.- Chapter 3.&nbsp;Validation of Land Use Cover maps: a guideline.- Chapter 4.&nbsp;Land Use Cover Datasets: a review.-&nbsp;Part II. Data access and visualization.- Chapter 5.&nbsp;Visualization and communication of LUC data.- Chapter 6.&nbsp;Sample data for thematic accuracy assessment in QGIS.- Part III. Tools to validate Land Use Cover maps: a review.- Chapter 7.&nbsp;Basic and Multiple-Resolution Cross Tabulation to validate&nbsp;Land Use Cover maps.- Chapter 8.&nbsp;Metrics based on a Cross-Tabulation matrix to validate Land&nbsp;Use Cover maps.- Chapter 9.&nbsp;Pontius Jr. methods based on a Cross Tabulation matrix to&nbsp;validate Land Use Cover maps.- Chapter 10.&nbsp;Validation of soft maps produced by a Land Use Cover&nbsp;Change model.- Chapter 11.&nbsp;Spatial metrics to validate Land Use Cover maps.- Chapter12.&nbsp;Advanced pattern analysis to validate Land Use Cover&nbsp;maps.- Chapter 13.&nbsp;Geographically Weighted methods to validate Land Use&nbsp;Cover maps.- Part IV. Land Use Cover datasets: a review.- Chapter 14.&nbsp;Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a single date,- Chapter 15. Global general Land Use Cover datasets with a time series&nbsp;of maps.- Chapter 16.&nbsp;General Land Use Cover datasets for Europe.- Chapter 17.&nbsp;General Land Use Cover datasets for Africa.- Chapter 18.&nbsp;General Land Use Cover datasets for America and Asia.- Chapter 19.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Supra-national thematic Land Use Cover datasets.</div>