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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...