Selecting appropriate variables for detecting grassland to cropland changes using high resolution satellite data.

ABSTRACT: Grassland is one of the most represented, while at the same time, ecologically endangered, land cover categories in the European Union. In view of the global climate change, detecting its change is growing in importance from both an environmental and a socio-economic point of view. A well-recognised tool for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Change Detection (CD), including grassland changes, is Remote Sensing (RS). An important aspect affecting the accuracy of change detection is finding the optimal indicators of LULC changes (i.e., variables). Inappropriately selected variables can produce inaccurate results burdened with a number of uncertainties. The aim of our study is to find the most suitable variables for the detection of grassland to cropland change, based on a pair of high resolutio

SUBMITTER: Kloucek T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6129385 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature