Interest in knowing more about the Earth's land cover and how it has changed over time
motivated the mission and sensor design of early terrestrial remote sensing systems. Rapid …

Given the advances in remotely sensed imagery and associated technologies, several
global land cover maps have been produced in recent times including IGBP DISCover, UMD …

Drylands cover 41% of the earth's land surface and include 45% of the world's agricultural
land. These regions are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to anthropogenic climate …

Even though researchers have paid a great deal of attention to wetland loss and status, the
actual extent of wetland loss on a global scale, especially the loss caused directly by human …

A new algorithm for Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) of land cover
using all available Landsat data is developed. It is capable of detecting many kinds of land …

The response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change is among the largest
uncertainties affecting future climate change projections,. The feedback between the …

Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better …

We have produced the first 30 m resolution global land-cover maps using Landsat Thematic
Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data. We have classified over …

A new 1 km global IIASA‐IFPRI cropland percentage map for the baseline year 2005 has
been developed which integrates a number of individual cropland maps at global to regional …

Land cover (LC) is the vital foundation to Earth science. Up to now, several global LC
datasets have arisen with efforts of many scientific communities. To provide guidelines for …