Open educational resources for the validation of global high-resolution land cover maps
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- GlobeLand30, Land Cover, Open Source Geospatial Software, Open Access, QGIS, Open Educational Resources, Validation
- Copyright
- © 2018 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
- 2018. Open educational resources for the validation of global high-resolution land cover maps. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27214v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27214v1
Abstract
Land cover (LC) maps are crucial to understand and analyze several phenomena, including urbanization, deforestation and climate change. This elevates the importance of their accuracy, which is assessed through a validation process. However, it has been 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 the validation procedure through open source and easy-to-use tools. 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
This research paper introduces tools created to validate global, high-resolution land cover maps; and collect reference land cover data.