Editorial of Special Issue “Remote Sensing for Land Cover/Land Use Mapping at Local and Regional Scales”

Abstract

More than ever, there is a need from policy and decision makers, national governments, nongovernmentalorganizations, international initiatives, scientists, and individual citizens for timelyand accurate spatially-explicit information on Earth’s physical surface cover and the socio-economicfunction of land at multiple scales. Information on land-cover, land-use patterns and monitoring oftheir changes, can support regional policies and local action for sustainable development in terms ofefficiency in resources use, disaster risk reduction, and environmental protection [...]