The use of spaceborne remote sensing for forest and landuse applications has been widely demonstrated as an important tool, particularly for forest monitoring and landcover identification. More importantly, the easy availability of data on a regular basis from operational satellites such as IRS, SPOT and LANDSAT has created the potential for such an analysis to be implemented as a monitoring tool. 
Since 1999, the launch of IKONOS II satellite introduced high spatial and radiometric resolution in the commercial storage of Earth Observation data. 
This project is a classification resulting from multispectral IKONOS data carried out using "on screen" interpretation and hand digitalisation. 
The test site is Nicosia, a Sicilian municipality in the Enna Province. The whole area extension is about 220 square Km.
This work was committed by Nicosia local authorities.