Global Four-minute Land Cover Data Set.

Production of global land cover data - GLCNMO

Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; College of Geographical Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, China; Geography Department, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt; School of Computer and Information Technology, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanba...

ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

ERA-Interim/Land is a global land surface reanalysis data set covering the period 1979–2010. It describes the evolution of soil moisture, soil temperature and snowpack. ERA-Interim/Land is the result of a single 32-year simulation with the latest ECMWF (European Centre for MediumRange Weather Forecasts) land surface model driven by meteorological forcing from the ERA-Interim atmospheric reanaly...

A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets

Accurate and up-to-date global land cover data sets are necessary for various global change research studies including climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem assessment, and environmental modeling. In recent years, substantial advancement has been achieved in generating such data products. Yet, we are far from producing geospatially consistent high-quality data at an operational l...

Landspotting - Games for improving global land cover

Current satellite-derived land cover products, which are very important for answering many crucial questions, show huge disagreements. In this paper, we introduce four serious game prototypes – a Facebook strategy game played on Google Maps, a Facebook tagging game, a tower-defense game, and an aesthetic tile game for the iPad – with the purpose of improving global land cover data. We describe ...

Land-use, Land-cover Changes and Global Aggregate Impacts