Recent applications of Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (L8/OLI) and Sentinel-2
MultiSpectral Instrument (S2/MSI) data for acquiring information about land use and land …

Turning Earth observation (EO) data consistently and systematically into valuable global
information layers is an ongoing challenge for the EO community. Recently, the term 'big …

Land cover information plays a vital role in many aspects of life, from scientific and economic
to political. Accurate information about land cover affects the accuracy of all subsequent …

Detailed parcel-level crop type mapping for the whole European Union (EU) is necessary for
the evaluation of agricultural policies. The Copernicus program, and Sentinel-1 (S1) in …

Urban areas and their vertical characteristics have a manifold and far-reaching impact on
our environment. However, openly accessible information at high spatial resolution is still …

Up-to-date information about the Earth's surface provided by land cover maps is essential for
numerous environmental and land management applications. There is, therefore, a clear …

Central Europe was hit by several unusually strong periods of drought and heat between
2018 and 2020. These droughts affected forest ecosystems. Cascading effects with bark …

This study analyzed, for the first time, the potential of combining the large European-wide
land survey LUCAS (Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey) and Landsat-8 data for mapping …

The Landsat archive is one of the richest Earth observation datasets available and provides
long-term data at fairly high temporal and spatial resolution globally. Temporal aggregation …

Accurately characterizing land surface changes with Earth Observation requires geo-located
ground truth. In the European Union (EU), a tri-annual surveyed sample of land cover and …