Key landscapes for conservation land cover and change monitoring, thematic and validation datasets for sub-Saharan Africa

Szantoi, Zoltan; Brink, Andreas; Lupi, Andrea; Mammone, Claudio; Jaffrain, Gabriel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3001-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3001-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3001-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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23 Nov 2020

Data description paper |

| 23 Nov 2020

Key landscapes for conservation land cover and change monitoring, thematic and validation datasets for sub-Saharan Africa

Zoltan Szantoi, Andreas Brink, Andrea Lupi, Claudio Mammone, and Gabriel Jaffrain

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Zoltan Szantoi, 06 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Key Landscapes for Conservation Land Cover and Change Monitoring', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2 comments', Zoltan Szantoi, 04 Aug 2020
RC3: 'Comments re: Szantoi et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Jun 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #3 comments', Zoltan Szantoi, 04 Aug 2020

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AR by Zoltan Szantoi on behalf of the Authors (04 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Aug 2020) by David Carlson

AR by Zoltan Szantoi on behalf of the Authors (22 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Oct 2020) by David Carlson

Short summary

Larger ecological zones and wildlife corridors in sub-Saharan Africa require monitoring, as social and economic demands put high pressure on them. Copernicus’ Hot-Spot Monitoring service developed a satellite-imagery-based monitoring workflow to map such areas. Here, we present a total of 560 442 km² from which 153 665 km² is mapped with eight land cover classes while 406 776 km² is mapped with up to 32 classes. Besides presenting the thematic products, we also present our validation datasets.