A team from the Earth and Life Institute has generated a database describing land-use change so thematically detailed that it is now used by institutions such as the OECD and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The database consists of a series of maps characterising the earth’s surface and its evolution from 1992 to the present, generated by using satellite earth observation data.
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