Land cover change in Scotland

Monitoring Land Cover Change  - Methodology

Stratification

Landsat satellite images for each of the twelve Scottish administrative regions were classified into broad land cover 'classes'. The resulting strata broadly equate to upland, lowland, intermediate and urban classes. A screen-shot of a Landsat Multi-Spectral Scanner image above Strathclyde and Central Regions, prior to being classified into broad strata for random sampling