Global land cover mapping with satellite remote sensing – progress at Tsinghua Peng Gong Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University Mexico City, Nov 10, 2015
2010 global 30m land cover data product, distributed by Tsinghua University of China, has been widely downloaded and used – US is the second biggest user - Gong P et al 2013 The data product has been continuously been improved Distribution site:
New development - First 250 m resolution global land cover series with spatio-temporal contextual classification 2000 – With 3 yr MODIS time series data Method – Liu, Kelly and Gong, 2006, RSE Liu, Song, Townshend, Gong, 2008, RSE 2009 – Wang et al., 2015 , ISPRS PRS
New development - Global 1 km potential wetland map Zhu and Gong, Science China Earth Sci
New development – 2014 Africa Land Cover Results – FROM-GLC classification scheme
New development – 2014 Africa land cover Classification Results – using GLC2000 scheme
Global daily water cover from 500m MODIS data Result – Water cover frequency in 2014 Number of days covered by water Daily global in land water area statistics
Ongoing work – global settlement mapping To be completed in mid 2016 Human settlement density of China (2010). Note: aggregated to 250m. A B C A B C