Guidelines for land use and land cover description and classification: draft final report PDF
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\A\^L INSTITUTEOFTERRESTRIAI.ECOLOGY (NATURALENVIRONMENTRESEARCHCOUNCIL) Report to UieUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammeandtotheFoodandAgricultureOrganisationofthe UnitedNations GUIDELINES FOR LAND USE AND LAND COVER DESCRIPTION AND CLASSIFICATION Draft Final Report UNContractsFP/1003-94-52-220IandFP/1003-94-52-2202 HEProjectT02053T1 BKWyatt,CBillington,KdeBie,JdeLeeuw,NGreatorexDavies,RLuxmoore %> <^^ Institute of ^^^ Terrestrial TC XTORIDCaNSE3l.Wi;0N Ecology MONITORINGCENTRE MonksWood AbbotsRipton Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE172LS January, 1997 . CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. 2.1. Background to this report FAG 2.1.1. Initiatives 2.1.2.IGBP 2.1.3.Relevant Regional and National Programmes UNEP 2.1.4. 2.2. Objectives ofthe study 2.2.1 Generic data model 2.2.2.Glossaries 2.2.3.Inter-comparison ofexisting classifications 2.2.4.Reference classifications 2.2.5.Database design 2.3. Methodological approach 2.3.1.Harmonisation vs Standardisation 2.3.2.The role ofa reference system for inter-comparison ofland classes 2.3.3.Parametric approach to the description ofland 2.3.4.A modular data model forland information 2.4. Key definitions and concepts 2.4.1.Classification 2.4.2.Legends 2.4.3.Land 2.4.4.Land use and land cover 2AA.l.La?jduse 2.4.4.2.Landcover PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF 3. LAND UNITS 3.1. Land classifiers 3.2. Issues ofSpace and Time 3.2.1.Grouping ofland descriptions 3.2.2.Generalised description ofland systems 3.3. Glossaries 3.4. Land Classification Systems 3.5. Apriori versusAposteriori Classification 3.6. Inter-comparison ofClassification Systems THE LAND USE LAND COVER DATABASE 4. - 4.L Data Model 4.2. The Land Use Data Model 4.3. Land Cover Notation 4.3.1.Land cover attributes 4.3.2.Types ofsub-set 4.3.3.Mixed land-covertypes 4.3.4.Measurements on part ofthe sub-set 4.4. The Land Cover Data Model 4.4.1.Representation ofland cover classes 4.5. The Glossary 4.5.1.The Land Use Glossary 4.5.2.The Land Cover Glossary 4.5.3.General glossary trees PRINCIPLES OF CORRELATION 5. 5.L The Need for a Correlative Approach A 5.2. Basis for Correlation 5.3. Overview ofCorrelation Procedures 5.4. Choice ofClassifications 5.5. Encoding ofapriori Classifications and Population ofGlossaries 5.6. Correlation ofClassifications 5.7. Appraisal ofthe Results ofthe Prototype Correlation 5.8. External Factors that may Influence Correlation 5.8.1.Quality ofthe Definition ofapriori Classes 5.8.2.Boundary Conditions 5.8.3.Differences in Attributes 5.9. Features ofthe Prototype System that may Influence Correlation 5.9.1.Modular Design ofthe System 5.9.2.Design ofGlossaries 5.9.3.Design ofthe Query System 5.9.4.Differences in Interpretation PRACTICAL APPLICATION 6. FUTURE REQUIREMENTS 7. REFERENCES 8. GLOSSARY Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from UNEP-WCIVIC, Cambridge littp://www.arcliive.org/details/guidelinesforlan97wyat LIST OF ANNEXES ANNEX 1 Steering Group for the Project 'Harmonization ofNomenclature forRecording Land Use and Land Cover Globally' ANNEX 2 TheLand Use Glossary Trees ANNEX 3 Bibliography ofGlobal Land Use/Land Cover Classifications ANNEX 4 Characteristics ofLand Classifications in Common Use ANNEX 5 Comparison ofCORINE Land Cover Classes with EightLand Classifications onthe Basis ofAttributes ofLand Use ANNEX 6 Comparison ofCORINE Land Cover Classeswith Eight Land Classifications on the Basis ofAttributes ofLand Cover ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the constant help, encouragement and advice provided by the members ofthe Project Steering Group and, in particularbyMiriam Schomaker, of theUnited Nations Environment Programme and byDenis Sims, John Latham and Dominique Lantieri, ofthe Food and Agriculture Organisation ofthe UnitedNations.
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