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Land cover change
Land cover change monitoring detects where surface classes change, what transition occurred, when it happened, and what uncertainty supports the mapped result.[1][2] USGS LCMAP uses Landsat Analysis Ready Data time series and the Continuous Change Detection and Classification algorithm to produce annual land surface change and land cover products.[1] ESA CCI Land Cover treats land cover as an Essential Climate Variable and produces consistent global land-cover information from multiple Earth-observation instruments.[3] High-resolution land-cover change products can report changed pixels and change year, which separates static class mapping from change timing.[2]
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- [1]USGS LCMAP annual land surface change and land cover productsagency doc-2026-05-27
- [2]ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Cover projectagency doc-2026-05-27
- [3]ESA High Resolution Land Cover CCI projectagency doc-2026-05-27
- [4]Hansen et al. 2014 WELD land-cover change studypeer reviewed2014-01-012026-05-27
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Land cover change. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-27. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/land-cover-change (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:topics:land-cover-change,
title = {Land cover change},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
year = {2026},
note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-27. CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/land-cover-change}
}