Countryside survey from ground and space: Different perspectives, complementary results

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-126

  Fuller, R M ^a   Wyatt, B K ^a   Barr, C J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Countryside; Error; Field survey; Land cover; Land use; Map; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; MAPPING; RURAL PLANNING; SURVEYING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SPACE; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031751692     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jema.1998.0213     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Ajai, A., Joplin, K. S. and Kaman, D. S. (1985). Discrimination of winter crops using temporal spectral profiles. International Journal of Remote Sensing 6, 1575-1580.
2. Ashkenazi, V., Classy, C. V. and Hill, C. J. (1992). Why Be Wary of Maps, Both Analogue and Especially Digital? Digital Mapping and Navigation - EURNAV 92. The 1992 International Conference - The Royal Institute of Navigation and the German Institute of Navigation, London.
3. Barr, C. J., Bunce, R. G. H., Clarke, R. T., Fuller, R. M., Furse, M. T., Gillespie, M. K., Groom, G. B., Hallam, C. J., Hornung, M. and Howard, B.C. (1993). Countryside Survey 1990: Main Report. London: Department of the Environment.
4. Barr, C. J., Bunce, R. G. H. and Heal, O. W. (1994). Countryside Survey 1990: a measure of change. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 155, 48-58.
5. Bunce, R. G. H. and Heal, O. W. (1984). Landscape evaluation and the impact of changing land use on the rural environment: the problem and an approach. In Planning and Ecology (R. D. Roberts and T. M. Roberts, eds), pp. 164-188. London: Chapman and Hall.
6. Bunce, R. G. H., Barr, C. J., Clarke, R. T., Howard, D.C. and Lane, A. M. J. (1996). Land classification for strategic ecological survey. Journal of Environmental Management 47, 37-60.
7. Cherrill, A. J., Lane, A. and Fuller, R. M. (1994). The use of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper imagery in the characterisation of landscape composition: a case study in Northern England. Journal of Environmental Management 40, 357-377.
8. Cherrill, A. J., McClean, C., Lane, A. and Fuller, R. M. (1995). A comparison of land cover types recognised in an ecological field survey of Northern England and in the first remotely sensed Land Cover Map of Great Britain. Biological Conservation 71, 313-323.
9. Congalton, R. G., Oderwald, R. G. and Mead, R. A. (1983). Assessing Landsat classification accuracy using discrete multivariate analysis statistical techniques. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 49, 1671-1678.
10. Congalton, R. G. (1991). A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of the Environment 37, 35-46.
11. Cushnie, J. (1988). The acquisition of SPOT-1 HRV imagery over southern Britain and northern France, May 1986-May 1987. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9, 159-167.
12. Foody, G. M. (1996). Relating the land cover composition of mixed pixels to artificial neural network classification output. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62, 491-499.
13. Fuller, R. M., Groom, G. B. and Jones, A. R. (1994a). The land cover map of Great Britain: An automated classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 60, 553-562.
14. Fuller, R. M., Groom, G. B. and Wallis, S. M. (1994b). The availability of Landsat TM images of Great Britain. International Journal of Remote Sensing 15, 1357-1362.
15. Gillespie, M. K., Howard, D. C., Ness, M. J. and Fuller, R. M. (1996). Linking satellite and field survey data through the use of GIS as implemented in the Countryside Survey 1990 project. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 39, 385-398.
16. Groom, G. B., Fuller, R. M. and Jones, A. R. (1996). Contextual correction: techniques for improving land cover mapping from remotely sensed images. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17, 69-89.
17. Hall, F. G., Townshend, J. R. and Engman, E. T. (1995). Status of remote sensing algorithms for estimation of land surface state parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment 51, 138-156.
18. Harley. J. B. (1975). Ordnance Survey Maps: a Descriptive Manual. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.
19. Hugli, H. and Frei, W. (1983). Understanding anisotropic reflectance in mountainous terrain. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 49, 671-683.
20. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. (1990). (Unpublished). ITE Land Classification and its Application to Survey: an Internal Appraisal. 44 pp. ITE Merlewood.
21. Janssen, L. L. F. and van der Wel, F. J. M. (1994). Accuracy assessment of satellite derived landcover data: A review. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 60, 419-426.
22. Jones, A. R., Settle, J. J. and Wyatt, B. K. (1988). Use of digital terrain data in the interpretation of SPOT-1 HRV multispectral imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9, 669-682.
23. Justice, C.O., Wharton, S. W. and Holben, B. N. (1981). Application of digital terrain data to quantify and reduce the topographic effect on Landsat data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2., 213-230.
24. Kershaw, C. D. and Fuller, R. M. (1992). Statistical problems in the discrimination of land cover from satellite images: a case study in lowland Britain. International Journal of Remote Sensing 13, 3085-3104.
25. Kontoes, C. and Stakenborg, J. (1990). Availability of cloud free Landsat images for operational projects. The analysis of cloud-cover figures over the countries of the European Community. International Journal of Remote Sensing 11, 1599-1608.
26. Lark, R. M. (1995). Components of accuracy of maps with special reference to discriminant analysis on remote sensor data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 16, 1461-1480.
27. Legg, C. A. (1991). A Review of Landsat MSS Image Acquisition Over the United Kingdom, 1976-1988, and the Implications for Operational Remote Sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing 12, 93-106.
28. Middelkoop, H. and Janssen, L. L. F. (1991). Implementation of Temporal Relationships in Knowledge Based Classification of Satellite Images. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 57, 937-945.
29. Naesset, E. (1995). A method to test for systematic differences between maps and reality using error matrices. International Journal of Remote Sensing 16, 3147-3156.
30. Nature Conservancy Council. (1990). Handbook for Phase 1 Habitat Survey - a Technique for Environmental Audit. Nature Conservancy Council. (Reprinted 1993 by JNCC, Peterborough, UK.)
31. Richards, J. A. and Kelly, D. J. (1984). On the concept of spectral class. International Journal of Remote Sensing 5, 987-991.
32. Schowengerdt, R. A. (1983). Techniques for Image Processing and Classification in Remote Sensing. London: Academic Press.
33. Schriever, J. R. and Congalton, R. G. (1995). Evaluating seasonal variability as an aid to cover-type mapping from Lansat Thematic Mapper data in the northeast. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 61, 321-327.
34. Settle, J. J. and Briggs, S. A. (1987). Fast maximum likelihood classification of remotelysensed imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 8, 723-734.
35. Thomas, I. L., Ching, N. P., Benning, V. M. and d'Aguano, J. A. (1987). A review of multi-channel indices of class separability. International Journal of Remote Sensing 8, 331-350.
36. Townshend, J. R. G. (1983). Effects of spatial resolution on the classification of land cover type. In Ecological Mapping from Ground Air and Space, ITE Symposium X (R. M. Fuller, ed.), pp. 101-102. Cambridge: Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.
37. Townshend, J. R. G., Gayler, J. R., Hardy, J. R., Jackson, M. J. and Baker, J. R. (1983). Preliminary analysis of LANDSAT-4 Thematic Mapper products. International Journal of Remote Sensing 4, 817-828.
38. Townshend, J. R. G. (1992). Land cover. International Journal of Remote Sensing 13, 1319-1328.
39. Wilson, A. K. (1988). The effective resolution element of Landsat Thematic Mapper. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9, 1303-1314.
40. Wyatt, B. K., Greatorex-Davies, J. N., Hill, M. O., Parr, T. W., Bunce, R. G. H. and Fuller, R. M. (1994). Comparison of land cover definitions. Countryside 1990 series. London: Department of the Environment.