1. 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

2. 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: http://data.ess.tsinghua.edu.cn

3. New development - First 250 m resolution global land cover series with spatio-temporal contextual classification 2000 – 2001 - 2002 With 3 yr MODIS time series data Method – Liu, Kelly and Gong, 2006, RSE Liu, Song, Townshend, Gong, 2008, RSE 2009 – 2010 - 2011 Wang et al., 2015 ， ISPRS PRS

4. New development - Global 1 km potential wetland map Zhu and Gong, 2014. Science China Earth Sci

5. New development – 2014 Africa Land Cover Results – FROM-GLC classification scheme

6. New development – 2014 Africa land cover Classification Results – using GLC2000 scheme

7. 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

8. 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