Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Agriculture provides humanity with food, fibers, fuel, and raw materials that are paramount
for human livelihood. Today, this role must be satisfied within a context of environmental …

Salinization poses a major challenge for modern agriculture with considerable areas being
salt-affected worldwide. However, these lands can be cultivated by applying saline …

The restoration of trees remains among the most effective strategies for climate change
mitigation. We mapped the global potential tree coverage to show that 4.4 billion hectares of …

With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main
strategies to boost agricultural production, but are also major drivers of biodiversity decline …

Land cover and land use maps provide an important basis for characterizing the ecological
state and biophysical properties of Earth's land areas. The Collection 5 MODIS Global Land …

We investigate the causes of deforestation in Indonesia, a country with one of the highest
rates of primary natural forest loss in the tropics, annually between 2001 and 2016. We use …

Global data sets on the geographic distribution of livestock are essential for diverse
applications in agricultural socio-economics, food security, environmental impact …

This paper presents an update and extension of HYDE, the History Database of the Global
Environment (HYDE version 3.2). HYDE is an internally consistent combination of historical …

Many applications that target dynamic land surface processes require a temporal
observation frequency that is not easily satisfied using data from a single optical sensor …