This chapter offers an introduction to the book and is specifically recommended for all readers intending to do the practical exercises it contains. It also provides readers with all the information they require to make the most of the book’s contents. In this chapter, we explain the aim, structure and intended audience for this book. We also give the readers a few tips and guidelines a…
International studies such as PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS show significant correlations between language competencies and educational success. Moreover, didactic studies show that this correlation can also be assumed for subject-related knowledge and technical language. This suggests that technical language requirements must also be explicitly addressed in geography lessons to give all students …
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 …