Global land cover products tailored to the needs of the climate modeling community - Land Cover project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative
(2012) European Geoscience Union — Location: Vienne, Autriche (23.April.2012)
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- Improving the systematic observation of land cover, as an Essential Climate Variable, will support the United Framework Convention on Climate Change effort to reduce the uncertainties in our understanding of the climate system and to better cope with climate change. The Land Cover project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative aims at contributing to this effort by providing new global land cover products tailored to the expectations of the climate modeling community. During the first three months of the project, consultation mechanisms were established with this community to identify its specific requirements in terms of satellite-based global land cover products. This assessment highlighted specific needs in terms of land cover characterization, accuracy of products, as well as stability and consistency, needs that are currently not met or even addressed. Based on this outcome, the project revisits the current land cover representation and mapping approaches.
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Bontemps, S., Defourny, P., Radoux, J., Kalogirou, V., & Arino, O. (2012). Global land cover products tailored to the needs of the climate modeling community - Land Cover project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative. European Geoscience Union, Vienne, Autriche. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/260942