Comparison of Global and Continental Land Cover Products for Selected Study Areas in South Central and Eastern European Region

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dc.authoridStych, Premysl/0000-0002-0307-9688
dc.authoridFilchev, Lachezar/0000-0002-6248-0148
dc.authoridZemek, Frantisek/0000-0001-7564-7296
dc.authoridKatagis, Thomas/0000-0002-1322-7699
dc.authoridNita, Mihai Daniel/0000-0002-6072-7784
dc.authoridIrimescu, Anisoara/0000-0002-0507-5277
dc.authoridLavreniuk, Mykola/0000-0003-2183-8833
dc.contributor.authorManakos, Ioannis
dc.contributor.authorTomaszewska, Monika
dc.contributor.authorGkinis, Ioannis
dc.contributor.authorBrovkina, Olga
dc.contributor.authorFilchev, Lachezar
dc.contributor.authorGenç, Levent
dc.contributor.authorGitas, Ioannis Z.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:11:45Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:11:45Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractLand cover is one of the key terrestrial variables used for monitoring and as input for modelling in support of achieving the United Nations Strategical Development Goals. Global and Continental Land Cover Products (GCLCs) aim to provide the required harmonized information background across areas; thus, they are not being limited by national or other administrative nomenclature boundaries and their production approaches. Moreover, their increased spatial resolution, and consequently their local relevance, is of high importance for users at a local scale. During the last decade, several GCLCs were developed, including the Global Historical Land-Cover Change Land-Use Conversions (GLC), the Globeland-30 (GLOB), Corine-2012 (CLC) and GMES/ Copernicus Initial Operation High Resolution Layers (GIOS). Accuracy assessment is of high importance for product credibility towards incorporation into decision chains and implementation procedures, especially at local scales. The present study builds on the collaboration of scientists participating in the Global Observations of Forest CoverGlobal Observations of Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD), South Central and Eastern European Regional Information Network (SCERIN). The main objective is to quantitatively evaluate the accuracy of commonly used GCLCs at selected representative study areas in the SCERIN geographic area, which is characterized by extreme diversity of landscapes and environmental conditions, heavily affected by anthropogenic impacts with similar major socio-economic drivers. The employed validation strategy for evaluating and comparing the different products is detailed, representative results for the selected areas from nine SCERIN countries are presented, the specific regional differences are identified and their underlying causes are discussed. In general, the four GCLCs products achieved relatively high overall accuracy rates: 74-98% for GLC (mean: 93.8%), 79-92% for GLOB (mean: 90.6%), 74-91% for CLC (mean: 89%) and 72-98% for GIOS (mean: 91.6%), for all selected areas. In most cases, the CLC product has the lower scores, while the GLC has the highest, closely followed by GIOS and GLOB. The study revealed overall high credibility and validity of the GCLCs products at local scale, a result, which shows expected benefit even for local/regional applications. Identified class dependent specificities in different landscape types can guide the local users for their reasonable usage in local studies. Valuable information is generated for advancing the goals of the international GOFC-GOLD program and aligns well with the agenda of the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program to improve the quality and consistency of space-derived higher-level products.
dc.description.sponsorshipSCERIN network; START; NASA/LCLUC program
dc.description.sponsorshipThe study is based on voluntary contributions by the participants with the support of their home institutions, the SCERIN network, START and NASA/LCLUC program.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/rs10121967
dc.identifier.issn2072-4292
dc.identifier.issue12
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85058870735
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rs10121967
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/20705
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000455637600109
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMdpi
dc.relation.ispartofRemote Sensing
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectland cover
dc.subjectearth observation
dc.subjectvalidation
dc.subjectweighted accuracy
dc.subjectconfidence levels
dc.subjectinter-comparison
dc.subjectSCERIN
dc.titleComparison of Global and Continental Land Cover Products for Selected Study Areas in South Central and Eastern European Region
dc.typeArticle

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