Rocky desertification is one of the most critical ecological and environmental problems in
areas underlain by carbonate rocks globally. Land cover and land use in the region affects …

Numerous global-scale land-cover datasets have greatly contributed to the study of global
environmental change and the sustainable management of natural resources. However …

Land cover plays an important role in the climate and biogeochemistry of the Earth system. It
is of great significance to produce and evaluate the global land cover (GLC) data when …

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 ecological and natural conditions in drought regions are harsh. Water shortages and
land desertification are prominent features of these regions. The land cover in these regions …

Urban areas have higher heterogeneity compared to natural areas, it is crucial to assess fine-
resolution land cover products and discover how they differ in urban areas so that they can …

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

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 …

Over the past decades, benefiting from the development of computing capacity and the free
access to Landsat and Sentinel imagery, several fine-resolution global land cover (GLC) …

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