EO based identification of Small Linear Features

Small linear features play a crucial role in landscape functioning, they serve as natural habitats or bio-corridors (green infrastructure) in intensively used open landscapes and provide important ecosystem services.

Due to their spatial characteristics they are not detected by Corine Land Cover (CLC).  Instead, they are part of other existing classes without their quantification. Their change (usually loss) is very seldomly detected due to their dispersed and only qualitative occurrence.

While in-situ monitoring small linear features is very expensive, the project will develop a methodology to extract their status and changes from high resolution Earth Observation images.