Open educational resources for validation of global high-resolution land cover maps
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Education, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- GlobeLand30, Land Cover, Open Source Geospatial Software, Open Access, QGIS, Open Educational Resources, Validation
- Copyright
- © 2019 Kilsedar et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Open educational resources for validation of global high-resolution land cover maps. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27214v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27214v2
Abstract
Land cover (LC) maps are crucial to analyze and understand several phenomena, including urbanization, deforestation and climate change. This elevates the importance of their accuracy, which is assessed through a validation process. However, we observed that knowledge on the importance of LC maps and their validation is limited. Hence, a set of educational resources has been created to assist in the validation of LC maps. These resources, available under an open access license, focus on validation through open source and easy-to-use software. Moreover, addressing the lack of accurate and up-to-date reference LC data, an application has been developed that provides users a means to collect LC data.
Author Comment
The new version has two new images to summarize the validation procedures and more references.