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Query: CCA Fuzzy Land Cover: a new method for classifying vegetation types and
  coverages and its implications for deforestation analysis   Land cover has been evaluated and classified on the basis of general features
using reflectance or digital levels of photographic or satellite data. One of
the most common methodologies based on CORINE land cover (Coordination of
Information on the Environment) data, which classifies natural cover according
to a small number of categories. This method produces generalizations about the
inventoried areas, resulting in the loss of important floristic and structural
information about vegetation types present (such as palm groves, tall dense
mangroves, and dense forests). This classification forfeits relevant
information on sites with high heterogeneity and diversity. Especially in the
tropics, simplification of coverage types reaches its maximum level with the
use of deforestation analysis, particularly when it is reduced to the two
classes of forests and nonforests. As this paper demonstrates, these results
have considerable consequences for political efforts to conserve the
biodiversity of megadiverse countries. We designed a new methodological
approach that incorporates biological distinctiveness combined with
phytosociological classification of vegetation and its relation to physical
features. This approach is based on parameters obtained through canonical
correspondence analysis on a fuzzy logic model, which are used to construct
multiple coverage maps. This tool is useful for monitoring and analyzing
vegetation dynamics, since it maintains the typological integrity of a
cartographic series. The methodology creates cartographic series congruent in
time and scale, can be applied to multiple and varied satellite inputs, and
always evaluates the same model parameters. We tested this new method in the
southwestern Colombian Caribbean region and compared our results with those
from what we believe are outdated tools used in other analyses of deforestation
around the world.

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