Comprehensive data set of global land cover change for land surface model applications

Impact of urban land cover change on land surface temperature

The rapid growth in urban population is seen to create a need for the development of more urban infrastructures. In order to meet this need, natural surfaces such as vegetation are been replaced with non-vegetated surfaces such as asphalt and bricks which has the ability to absorb heat and release it later. This change in land cover is seen to increase the land surface temperature. Previous stu...

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...

Land Cover, Land Use and the Global Change

Remote Sensing Applications: Beyond Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

Remotely sensed (RS) imagery is increasingly being adopted in investigations and applications outside of traditional land-use land-cover change (LUCC) studies. This is due to the increased awareness by governments, NGOs and Industry that earth observation data provide important and useful spatial and temporal information that can be used to make better decisions, design policies and address pro...

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...