Mapping land cover change over continental Africa using Landsat and Google Earth Engine cloud computing.

Quantifying and monitoring the spatial and temporal dynamics of the global land cover is critical for better understanding many of the Earth's land surface processes. However, the lack of regularly updated, continental-scale, and high spatial resolution (30 m) land cover data limit our ability...

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Main Authors: Alemayehu Midekisa, Felix Holl, David J Savory, Ricardo Andrade-Pacheco, Peter W Gething, Adam Bennett, Hugh J W Sturrock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5617164?pdf=render