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Monitoring implies a capability to predict the uses, and changes of use, of land, whereas mapping involves the precise assessment of all facets of land use, monitoring is not necessarily dependent upon complete enumerations/inventories. In the event, land- information- systems depending upon completeness often overshadow simpler, and sometimes more reproducible, systems.
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Bie, S.W. (1986). Monitoring, Optimizing and Predicting Impacts from Multi-Source Spatial Data. In: Last, F.T., Hotz, M.C.B., Bell, B.G. (eds) Land and its Uses — Actual and Potential. NATO Conference Series, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2169-9_27
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