natural=bare_soil sounds good to me, maybe it should be useful to set a
maximum vegetation percentage (30% ?)
If not, someone could say "Hey, there are two bushes in that area, it's not
bare soil"
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I found interesting the Corine definition for "3.3.3 Sparsely vegetated
areas" [1] : it refers to various scenarios, and specify a percentage
(10%-50%, or "less than 50%") for vegetation landcover.
In the similar American paper [2] mentioned in a previous post, we find for
barren land (page 18): "
*"...Said this, why not try to use CORINE [1] definitions?"*
Thank you Voschix to mention this paper, searching the ISBN code (ISBN
92-826-2578-8) I was able to download it from researchgate.net (it's a pdf
with 120 pages).
Unluckily it's only about part of Europe (from 62°N to 28°S, from 14°W to
nd has thin soil, sand, or rocks."). This web page cites "A Land
Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data",
a free paper you can find in Google Books too.
- "Barren soil is starving Africans" [3]
Other examples of "desertic" lands:
- B
Martin began this thread after a discussion in the Italian List [1] .
Problem arise because we've official toponyms (they are used in addresses,
in scarcely inhabited areas, where roads have not an official name).
These toponyms are not strictly related to the (few) dispersed houses, but
also to th
