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Article

The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway

by
Wendy Fjellstad
1,*,
Agata Hościło
2,
Svein Olav Krøgli
1,
Jonathan Rizzi
1 and
Milena Chmielewska
3
1
Department of Landscape Monitoring, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), P.O. Box 115, 1431 Ås, Norway
2
National Centre for Emissions Management, Institute of Environmental Protection—National Research Institute (IOŚ-PIB), 32 Slowicza St., 02-170 Warsaw, Poland
3
Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK), 27 Modzelewskiego Street, 02-679 Warsaw, Poland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Land 2025, 14(4), 794; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794
Submission received: 22 February 2025 / Revised: 17 March 2025 / Accepted: 3 April 2025 / Published: 7 April 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Land Use and Land Cover Mapping (Second Edition))
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Abstract

Many countries have goals to reduce soil sealing of agricultural land to preserve food production capacity. To monitor progress, reliable data are needed to quantify soil sealing and changes over time. We examined the potential of the Imperviousness Classified Change (IMCC) 2015–2018 product provided by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) to assess soil sealing in agricultural areas in Poland and Norway. We found very high overall accuracy due to the dominance of the area with no change. When we focused on areas classified as change, we found low user accuracy, with over-estimation of soil sealing. The producer accuracy was generally much higher, meaning that real cases of soil sealing were captured. This is better than under-estimation of soil sealing because it highlights areas where sealing may have occurred, allowing the user to carry out further control of this much smaller area, without having to assess the great expanse of unchanged area. We concluded that the datasets provide useful information for Europe. They are standardized and comparable across countries, which can enable comparison of the effects of policies intended to prevent soil sealing. Some distinctions between classes are not reliable, but the general information about increase or decrease is useful.
Keywords: land take; farmland; landscape change; verification; remote sensing land take; farmland; landscape change; verification; remote sensing

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Fjellstad, W.; Hościło, A.; Krøgli, S.O.; Rizzi, J.; Chmielewska, M. The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway. Land 2025, 14, 794. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794

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Fjellstad W, Hościło A, Krøgli SO, Rizzi J, Chmielewska M. The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway. Land. 2025; 14(4):794. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794

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Fjellstad, Wendy, Agata Hościło, Svein Olav Krøgli, Jonathan Rizzi, and Milena Chmielewska. 2025. "The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway" Land 14, no. 4: 794. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794

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Fjellstad, W., Hościło, A., Krøgli, S. O., Rizzi, J., & Chmielewska, M. (2025). The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway. Land, 14(4), 794. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794

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