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CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic
Chong Liu
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University,
and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai 519082, China
Xiaoqing Xu
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518066, China
Xuejie Feng
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University,
and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai 519082, China
Xiao Cheng
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University,
and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai 519082, China
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Huabing Huang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University,
and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai 519082, China
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518066, China
International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development
Goals, Beijing 100094, China
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Rapid Arctic changes are increasingly influencing human society, both locally and globally. Land cover offers a basis for characterizing the terrestrial world, yet spatially detailed information on Arctic land cover is lacking. We employ multi-source data to develop a new land cover map for the circumpolar Arctic. Our product reveals regionally contrasting biome distributions not fully documented in existing studies and thus enhances our understanding of the Arctic’s terrestrial system.
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