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Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3303-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3303-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Data description article
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18 May 2026
Data description article |  | 18 May 2026

25-year, quarterly land change maps of China's Loess Plateau reveal long-term and substantial water-induced soil erosion mitigation

Mofan Cheng, Zhuohong Li, Linxin Li, Wei He, Liangpei Zhang, and Hongyan Zhang

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This study presents a quarterly land-cover and soil erosion dataset for the Loess Plateau from 2000 to 2024 with 100 time steps, achieving an overall accuracy of 81.44 % based on 40 000 annotated samples and a mean absolute error of 4.50 % relative to government survey data. The maps show forest expansion, cropland expansion, and bare land reduction, together with a 30 % decline in mean soil erosion.
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