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1. Land use/land cover classification systems and their relationship to land planning / William J. Gribb and Robert J. Czerniak -- 2. Ontology for national land use/land cover map : Poland case study / Ma?gorzata Luc and El?bieta Bielecka -- 3. The need for awareness of semantic plasticity in international harmonization of geographical information : seen from a Nordic forest classification perspective / Alexandra Bj?rk and Helle Sk?nes -- 4. Parameterized approaches to the categorization of land use and land cover / Louisa J. M. Jansen -- 5. Eliciting and formalizing the intricate semantics of land use and land cover class definitions / Margarita Kokla, Alkyoni Baglatzi, and Marinos Kavouras -- 6. The EAGLE concept : a paradigm shift in land monitoring / Stephan Arnold, Geoffrey Smith, Gerard Hazeu, Barbara Kosztra, Christoph Perger, Gebhard Banko, Tomas Soukup, Geir-Harald Strand, Nuria Valcarcel Sanz, and Michael Bock -- 7. An applied ontology for semantics associated with surface water features / Dalia E. Varanka and E. Lynn Usery -- 8. Land type categories as a complement to land use and land cover attributes in landscape mapping and monitoring / Anders Glimsk?r and Helle Sk?nes -- 9. Text mining analysis of land cover semantic overlap / Alexis Comber, Peter Fisher, and Richard Wadsworth -- 10. LC3 : a spatiotemporal data model to study qualified land cover changes / Helbert Arenas, Benjamin Harbelot, and Christophe Cruz -- 11. Applying Tegon, the elementary physical land cover feature, for data interoperability / Wim Devos and Pavel Milenov -- 12. Resolving semantic heterogeneities in land use and land cover / Nancy Wiegand, Gary Berg-Cross, and Naijun Zhou -- 13. Crowdsourcing landscape perceptions to validate land cover classifications / Kevin Sparks, Alexander Klippel, Jan Oliver Wallgr?n, and David Mark.