Land Use/Land Cover Classification Systems and Their Relationship to Land Planning

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
William Gribb ◽  
Robert Czerniak
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Land Planning

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Spatial Data and Land Use/Land Cover Classification in Urbanized Areas and Areas Subjected to Anthropogenic Pressure for the Example of Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3070
Author(s):  
Patrycja Szarek-Iwaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Land Use Classification ◽  
Land Cover Data ◽  
Spatial Changes ◽  
Land Use Types

Urbanization processes are some of the key drivers of spatial changes which shape and influence land use and land cover. The aim of sustainable land use policies is to preserve and manage existing resources for present and future generations. Increasing access to information about land use and land cover has led to the emergence of new sources of data and various classification systems for evaluating land use and spatial changes. A single globally recognized land use classification system has not been developed to date, and various sources of land-use/land-cover data exist around the world. As a result, data from different systems may be difficult to interpret and evaluate in comparative analyses. The aims of this study were to compare land-use/land-cover data and selected land use classification systems, and to determine the influence of selected classification systems and spatial datasets on analyses of land-use structure in the examined area. The results of the study provide information about the existing land-use/land-cover databases, revealing that spatial databases and land use and land cover classification systems contain many equivalent land-use types, but also differ in various respects, such as the level of detail, data validity, availability, number of land-use types, and the applied nomenclature.

scholarly journals Ontology-Based Probabilistic Estimation for Assessing Semantic Similarity of Land Use/Land Cover Classification Systems

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 920
Author(s):  
Xiran Zhou ◽  
Xiao Xie ◽  
Yong Xue ◽  
Bing Xue
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Semantic Similarity ◽  
Probabilistic Model ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Semantic Heterogeneity ◽  
Domain Ontologies

To accurately and formally represent the historical trajectory and present the current situation of land use/land cover (LULC), numerous types of classification standards for LULC have been developed by different nations, institutes, organizations, etc.; however, these land cover classification systems and legends generate polysemy and ambiguity in integration and sharing. The approaches for dealing with semantic heterogeneity have been developed in terms of semantic similarity. Generally speaking, these approaches lack domain ontologies, which might be a significant barrier to implementing these approaches in terms of semantic similarity assessment. In this paper, we propose an ontological approach to assess the similarity of the domain of LULC classification systems and standards. We develop domain ontologies to explicitly define the descriptions and codes of different LULC classification systems and standards as semantic information, and formally organize this semantic information as rules for logical reasoning. Then, we utilize a Bayes algorithm to create a conditional probabilistic model for computing the semantic similarity of terms in two separate LULC land cover classification systems. The experiment shows that semantic similarity can be effectively measured by integrating a probabilistic model based on the content of ontology.

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