Large-scale land cover datasets comprise an important foundation of the research on land
surface processes, ecosystem assessment, and environmental modeling. The evaluation of …

Precise state and regional land cover mapping are foundational data in the studies of land
surface processes and modeling, such as climate change, biodiversity conservation …

Global land cover mapping with high accuracy is essential to downstream researches. Five
global land cover data sets derived from moderate-resolution satellites, ie, Global Land …

The provision of precise and dependable information regarding the extent and distribution of
cropland is imperative for the evaluation of food security, agricultural planning, and resource …

Four 1 km global land cover products are currently available to the scientific community: the
University of Maryland (UMD) global land cover product, the International Geosphere …

This study aims to examine the suitability of four global land cover datasets (UMD, IGBP-
DISCover, MODIS and GLC2000) for their accuracies in mapping and monitoring cropland …

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 …

Land cover information is vital for research and applications concerning natural resources
and environmental modeling. Accuracy assessment is an important dimension in use and …

Precise global/regional land cover mapping is of fundamental importance in studies of land
surface processes and modelling. Quantitative assessments of the map quality and …

Recent developments of 30 m global land characterization datasets (eg, land cover,
vegetation continues field) represent the finest spatial resolution inputs for global scale …