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Discover Land cover change Globally.Check out our projects across the globe.
The Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland investigates methods, causes and impacts of global land surface change. Earth observation imagery are the primary data source and land cover extent and change the primary topic of interest. The lab is led by Drs. Matthew Hansen and Peter Potapov. Their team consists of 17 full-time researchers and 9 doctoral students, and a constantly changing number of international, national and local interns.
Dynamic, publicly accessible user interfaces for Earth Engine analyses.
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China crop map
Europe Tree Canopy Dynamics
DIST-ALERT
Global Forest Canopy Height 2019
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Preliminary project results:
Global Land Cover Change map prototype: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/data#global-land-cover-change
NASA, along with its consortium partners the University of Maryland (UMD) and the Observatoire Satellital des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale (OSFAC), provides unique remote sensing data products, mapping and other services to support CARPE III.
The University of Maryland is supporting the HIVOS and Greenpeace Netherlands‐led ‘All Eyes on the Amazon’ project supported by the Dutch National Postcode Lottery. Our work will consist of the following tasks: