This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and
techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the
basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping modeling validation practice. It
makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques
to validate LUC maps and models. Besides this book is enriched with practical exercises to be
applied with QGIS. The book includes a description of relevant global and supra-national LUC
datasets currently available. Finally the book provides the user with all the information
required to manage and download these datasets.
