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& R SL a b

Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Lab. Dept. ECBE, Univ. of Pavia

Copernicus Land-cOver crOwdsourcingPlatform for Sentinel-based mapping

Daniele De Vecchi, Fabio Dell’Acqua

Department of Industrial and Information Engineering,

University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

daniele.devecchi03@universitadipavia.it

https://cloopsy.unipv.it

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T L C

& R SL a b

Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Lab. Dept. ECBE, Univ. of Pavia

The App

• Automatic validation of land cover layers using georeferenced volunteered data

• Selection is facilitated using visual examples

• Reports are validated by the administrators

• A tutorial is mandatory for each new user

T L C

& R SL a b

Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Lab. Dept. ECBE, Univ. of Pavia

Advantages and Innovation

• Hosted by the ESA RSS service

– easy integration with Sentinel-2 data

• Automatic matching with parcel GIS layers where available

• Complementary goals:

– Validation of algorithms working on satellite images

– Update of land cover layers

– Training for machine learning algorithms

• Data accessible through REST APIs– https://cloopsy.unipv.it/rest-api/reports-public/