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In this paper we present a methodological approach based on remote sensing techniques to assess land use in accordance with the requirements of the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, UNFCCC (1995). The methodology is based mainly on the recognition of the land key elements and their function and on the adoption of the \u201cpredominant land use\u201d criteria in the classification scheme settled by rules. The concept that underpins these rules is that the land use function of land can be expressed through hierarchical relationships among key land elements, and that these functional relationships are based on thresholds reflecting the relevance and predominance of key land elements in the observed area. When analyses are supported by high (10\u201330 m) or very high ( &lt; 10 m) spatial resolution remote sensing data, the methodology provides a systematic approach for the representation of land use that is consistent with the concepts and methodologies developed by the International Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) to fulfill UNFCCC commitments. In particular, data with high and very high spatial resolution provide good results, with overall accuracies above 87% in the identification of key land elements that characterize land use classes. The methodology could be used to assess land use in any context (e.g., for any land use category or in any country and region) as it is based on the definition of user\/project rules that should be tailored on the land use function of any territory.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs4041024","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,17]],"date-time":"2012-04-17T11:00:01Z","timestamp":1334660401000},"page":"1024-1045","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":71,"title":["From Land Cover to Land Use: A Methodology to Assess Land Use from Remote Sensing Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Susana","family":"Mart\u00ednez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"IBADER, GI-1934 TB Department of Botany, University of Santiago de Compostela (Lugo Campus), E-27002 Lugo, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Danilo","family":"Mollicone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Forest Department, United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale Terme di Caracalla, I-00153 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"997","DOI":"10.1029\/1999GB900046","article-title":"Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992","volume":"13","author":"Ramankutty","year":"1999","journal-title":"Global Biogeochem. 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