Many of the Nordic monitoring programmes make extensive use of sample-based survey. Results from such surveys are
typically presented as partial coverage data. Other monitoring programmes, in particular those using automated
image classification, create full coverage ('census') monitoring data. Typically, the full-coverage results of
these operations, such as land cover / land use maps, lack the thematic detail of the partial-coverage monitoring
data. There are various methods, already used in some European monitoring projects, for integrating the thematic
detail of the sample-based approaches with the coverage provided by census monitoring. Nordic monitoring should
develop these methods, as a means of increasing the application of image data. Progress should be made through:
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examination and assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of integration methods implemented in monitoring
programmes in other countries,
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