6. Conclusion.

This experimental procedure managed by the project's partners seems pertinent in the monitoring of landuse practices even when treating a `small sized' parcel layer (average 0.75 ha).

In this application the radiometric based indices combined with parcel homogeneity analysis, are more efficient than a classification and land parcel analysis, and that, despite the volume of data.

The ArcInfo GIS and the new SPOT image media, render the process accessible to an administrative service having no particular competence in digital image processing.

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