An update and beyond: key landscapes for conservation land cover and change monitoring, thematic and validation datasets for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions

Szantoi, Zoltan; Brink, Andreas; Lupi, Andrea

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3767-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3767-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3767-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

Data description paper

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06 Aug 2021

Data description paper |

| 06 Aug 2021

An update and beyond: key landscapes for conservation land cover and change monitoring, thematic and validation datasets for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions

Zoltan Szantoi, Andreas Brink, and Andrea Lupi

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3767-2021-supplement

Data sets

Land cover and change thematic and validation datasets for selected African, Caribbean and Pacific areas Zoltan Szantoi, Andreas Brink, and Andrea Lupi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4621375

Land cover and change thematic and validation datasets for selected African, Caribbean and Pacific areas Zoltan Szantoi, Andreas Brink, and Andrea Lupi https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931968

Short summary

The ever-evolving landscapes in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions should be monitored for land cover changes. The Global Land Monitoring Service of the Copernicus Programme, and in particular the Hot Spot Monitoring activity, developed a satellite-imagery-based workflow to monitor such areas. Here, we present a total of 852 025 km² of areas mapped with up to 32 land cover classes. Thematic land cover and land cover change maps, as well as validation datasets, are presented.