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Welcome to the ILS Video Podcast, today's
episode is about the incora dashboard

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which is a webgis platform
for land use monitoring.

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Now I'm going to switch to the live version
of this platform, to illustrate how it works.

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So, first of all, you just need to select the
administrative of label they are working on.

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Alternatively you can directly type in the name of
the city in the searchbar. The second step is to

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select a data set. This dashboard includes seven
data sets, which are categorized into four groups.

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The first group includes the incora land
cover map and incora soil sealing map,

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which were produced by the incora project
using satellite data. Clicked on the

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information icon, you will find the information on
how the maps were created and what is the mapping

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accuracy of the maps. If you want to know what the
data looks like, click on the icon "basic data".

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The interface will switch to a map display
of the data set. At the same time the map

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content is also presented as numbers on the
right side. For instance it issues in 2020

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the hectare and the percentage
values of land cover classes.

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This function also works for some other data
set, such as the incora soil ceiling map,

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the copernics land cover map and also the
copernics soil sealing map. If users want to have

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a deep insight into the maps there's a function
to overlay the maps with ground truth data,

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such as openstreetmap and aerial photos. Like
here, i can choose the background as area photos.

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A Trick here is to adjust the transparency of
the selected data, so you can have an easier

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comparison. So, why does the dashboard include so
many different data sets and what is the data used

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for? The core of the project is to monitoring land
changes, based on spatial data. In other words,

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to calculate the indicator based on the seven
data set, when you click on indicator on the

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right side, it gives you the indicator result. For
instance the urban land has increased about 150

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hectare between 2015 and 2018 using copernics land
cover map. If you are interested in the vegetation

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maps changes, you can choose the indicators in
the vegetation group. The map in the center is a

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geographic display of the selected indicators.
If you're not sure what the indicator means,

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you can find the detailed definition about this
and the calculation procedure of the indicators

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by click on the information icon. A special
feature of this dashboard is the expert mode.

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Click on compare, then you will be directed
into the expert mode. What you need to do is:

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set up the area of interest, select
the indicator you want to know and

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select the data you want to compare.
Like such as here. I select the copernics

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land cover map and the copernics soil
sealing map and then, as you can see,

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for the same indicator give you different
values. This is caused by the different

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mapping unit, mapping period and the mapping
method and so on. Users can find answers to the

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difference in the data description, indicator
definition and as well as the faq sections.

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A more straightforward way is to compare
the changing layer of the data set, which

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will provide a better understanding of the change
behind it. For instance, here the copernics land

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cover tells you that a patch with a size of 5.1
hectare was converted from agricultural land into

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industry during the period between 2012 and 2018.
Meanwhile at the same place the copernics soil

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ceiling map says that a patch with a size of 2.7
hectare was sealed during the period between 2015

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and 2018. This part explains why this two data
set gives different values to the indicator

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increase of buildup. The general information
about the project you can find in the section

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"about this portal" or the faq sections. So,
that is pretty much what i like to say about

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this dashboard. We welcome all of you to try this
platform and share your user experience with us,

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looking forward to discussing with you
about land use monitoring, thank you.