Workshop 2: Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover Intercomparison and Validation

The members of this WG will work on the intelligent capture and integration of geospatial information and knowledge in an online collaborative environment. This involves techniques for mapping the world with newly generated content that can be contributed voluntarily or as byproducts of people’s actions and moving (GNSS tracks, social media, telecommunication, etc). It also involves collaborative architectures, data models, platforms, services and apps for data sharing, linking, visualizing, geoprocessing and decision-making. Moreover the reasons, motivations and modes of user collaboration as well as topics related to openness, ownership, privacy and trust will be investigated within the WG or by means of relationships with other Associations and Organizations.Collectively, an enormous amount of data is captured every day and at least 80% of them are or can be georeferenced. The aim of the WG is to study how all these data can be acquired, linked, assessed and improved in their quality and used for building a Free and Open Digital Earth. The increase of humanitarian crisis in the world has resulted in more collaboration to use new technology and digital skills to coordinate response. As well, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight opportunities to incorporate satellite and geospatial programs into long term projects.

ISPRS Working Group IV/4

High-resolution Land Cover maps are fundamental for many applications such as natural resources management, ecological and hydrological modelling and study of phenomena like soil consumption and deforestation and climate change assessment.
The availability of these global datasets as open data is a great richness everywhere, and especially where these products are not available, but sometimes there are limitations in their usage due to the lack of capacity in managing and processing them. Moreover, there is a need to assess them at the local level to evaluate their accuracy and, more in general, their fitness-for-use.
The workshop focuses on the presentation of the training/educational material about the intercomparison/validation of global Land Cover maps developed within the ISPRS Capacity Building Initiative.
The dataset used in the training is GlobeLand30 (http://www.globallandcover.com/GLC30Download/index.aspx). Desktop, web and mobile collaborative geospatial applications are presented in the workshop. The training material is immediately reusable, being based on Freeware or Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and being released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0).
The workshop is open to any participants; no specific or technical background is required.  
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The workshop is free for participants of GeoDelft, otherwise a day pass has to be purchased. The deadline for an early bird registration is July 15.

TU Delft Aula Conference Centre

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