We live in a changing world and this acceleration of change provides a strong motivation for research in GeoInformatics. Our tools and methods for representing and handling land cover data should be capable of dealing with change. In this work we developed a land cover model to handle the evolution of land cover objects. This consists of an abstract data type (land cover object) and uses a limited number of spatial operations such as create and split to elicit the changes it suffers in time. We present an application of the model to the data provided by the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Program.
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