GLCN: Global Land Cover Network

BACKGROUND

The GLCN initiative (brochure) is the result of a common effort of partners and sponsors to answer the need, expressed by the international community, for a standardized global land cover database. This initiative has been launched at the conference "Strategies for Global Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring" held in Florence 6-8 May 2002.

OBJECTIVES

Harmonize land cover definitions, classification systems, mapping and monitoring specifications.
Develop standards for global mapping.
Initiate building of a global database.
Promote outreach initiatives on development methodologies and applications of land cover data.
Provide advisory services.
Function as an international, politically neutral and not-for-profit clearinghouse for land cover information at global and regional levels.

GLCN is a global collaboration to develop a fully harmonized approach to make accessible reliable and comparable baseline land cover data required by local, national and international initiatives.

multi-date landsat imagery


Tools: MAD-CAT MAD-CAT is a stand alone application that integrates land cover mapping, change detection and validation functions. It allows delineations from satellite imagery using object-based classification techniques. [more..]	Vulnerable Ecosystems GLCN offers a section dedicated to all those activities concerning land cover mapping and change detection over sensitive ecosystems to climate change: forests (i.e. mangroves), mountains, coasts (deltas). [more..]	LCCS3: towards LCCM The version 3 of LCCS builds upon the Land Cover Classification Model (LCCM) developed by using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). LCCM allows creating classes of land cover through an object-based approach. [more..]



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