Global land cover mapping is essential for environmental monitoring and earth system modeling, but the high production costs lead to considerable carbon dioxide emissions that are rarely considered.

This paper presents a detailed land cover mapping study for the state of Victoria in Australia conducted through a machine learning approach (random forest algorithm) using Sentinel-2 imagery. The ...

REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute ...

Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) maps contextualize and quantify the impacts of earth processes and human activity on the environment. Organizations around the world are now using these tools to inform ...

REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is releasing for the first time ever a new high-resolution, 2020 global land cover map as part ...

Accurate land cover mapping underpins biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable land use. Despite advances in remote sensing, satellite-only approaches remain limited by cloud cover ...

New NASA land cover maps are providing scientists with the most refined global picture ever produced of the distribution of Earth’s ecosystems and land use patterns. High-quality land cover maps aid ...

A new study introduces the Hybrid Global Annual 1-km International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Land Cover Maps for the period 2000–2020. This innovative dataset, free to access, marks a ...

An area of 225,200 hectares (over 2,250 km2) of the UK showed a change in land cover / use from 2006 to 2012 Over 100,000 hectares of coniferous forest lost to clear-cutting represents dominant change ...

If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...