LCCS

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LCCS ( L and C over C lassification S ystem; classification system of land cover ) is a classification scheme for the earth's surface and especially its land use . It was designed to be the planar elements of land information systems to in a rough scheme classify .

With the help of the LCCS scheme, landscapes of rural and urban areas can be uniformly recorded and compared globally according to the type of land surface (natural and cultivated land , vegetation types, vegetation and type of agriculture , water areas, settlement and traffic areas). It is based on a standardized recording scheme and can be analyzed with computer programs or input masks from geographic information systems.

The Admission Protocol was initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Environment Program due to a lack of standardized and flexible systems. The aim is a simple classification of land surfaces, regardless of the location of the investigation or other factors such as spatial, temporal or thematic accuracy.

It forms a worldwide reference system for land surfaces that can be used in both standardized and flexible ways. The standardized data acquisition allows a comparison of the results between processors or between data sets from different regions.

In a first step, the system assigns a specific area to one of eight types:

  1. Cultivated areas overgrown by plants
  2. Natural areas overgrown by plants
  3. cultivated bodies of water or flooded areas
  4. natural vegetation of bodies of water or flooded areas
  5. artificial land surfaces
  6. naturally bare land surface
  7. artificial water bodies
  8. natural bodies of water

The further division of the area types can take place dynamically - without the restriction of previously defined classes. For each of the eight types there are a number of predefined properties that are used for the classification. So far - due to the lack of standardization - there has been no other flexible, internationally used system, but the development of better object keys is in progress in GIS research . An application has been made for the LCCS to be recognized as an ISO standard for the classification and international comparison of land surfaces, but this is partly controversial. In the EU z. B. a differently structured system with 13 main and 30 flexible sub-classes is used, see CORINE Land Cover .

The following organizations and projects use LCCS for data acquisition or analysis:

software

There are various programs for translating the LCCS schema or for evaluation:

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