Corine land cover 2000 (CLC2000) is a project jointly managed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European
Environment Agency (EEA). Its aim is to update the Corine land cover database in Europe for the year 2000. Landsat-7
Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) satellite images were used for the update and were acquired within the framework of
the Image2000 project. Knowledge of the land status through the use of mapping CORINE Land Cover is of great
importance to study of interaction land cover and land use categories in Europe scale. This paper presents the accuracy
assessment methodology designed and implemented to validate the Iberian Coast CORINE Land Cover 2000
cartography. It presents an implementation of a new methodological concept for land cover data production, Object-
Based classification, and automatic generalization to assess the thematic accuracy of CLC2000 by means of an
independent data source based on the comparison of the land cover database with reference data derived from visual
interpretation of high resolution satellite imageries for sample areas. In our case study, the existing Object-Based
classifications are supported with digital maps and attribute databases. According to the quality tests performed, we
computed the overall accuracy, and Kappa Coefficient.
We will focus on the development of a methodology based on classification and generalization analysis for built-up areas
that may improve the investigation. This study can be divided in these fundamental steps:
-Extract artificial areas from land use Classifications based on Land-sat and Spot images.
-Manuel interpretation for high resolution of multispectral images.
-Determine the homogeneity of artificial areas by generalization process.
-Overall accuracy, Kappa Coefficient and Special grid (fishnet) test for quality test.
Finally, this paper will concentrate to illustrate the precise accuracy of CORINE dataset based on the above general
steps.
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