{"id":2297432,"date":"2024-04-04T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2297432"},"modified":"2024-04-09T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:48:14","slug":"global-land-cover-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/global-land-cover-updates-2","title":{"rendered":"Global Land Cover Updates"},"author":7071,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931],"tags":[564122,115262,25871,774172,770002],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-2297432","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-change-detection","tag-imagery","tag-land-cover","tag-lulc","tag-sentinel-2","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":7071,"user_firstname":"Robert","user_lastname":"Waterman","nickname":"Robert Waterman","user_nicename":"robe9031","display_name":"Robert Waterman","user_email":"RWaterman@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:16","user_description":"Robert Waterman leads the ArcGIS Living Atlas Imagery Team at Esri. Robert takes great pride in the work the team does in democratizing imagery and remote sensing, improving accessibility and helping others better understand our planet through Earth Observation with ready-to-use content and capabilities.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"The annual Sentinel-2 land use\/land cover time series now includes global coverage from 2017-2023. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Annual 10-meter global coverage from 2017-2023.<\/h2>\n

Through our continued partnership with\u00a0Impact Observatory<\/a>, the annual Sentinel-2 10m Land Use\/Land Cover Time Series<\/a> has been updated with new data from 2023, expanding the time series to include global coverage from 2017-2023.<\/p>\n

Land use\/land cover (LULC) maps are a valuable tool for decision-makers at local, regional, and national levels around the world. Performing change analysis on a series of LULC maps over time can help to quantify and better understand the impacts of earth processes and human activity on our environment. This in turn informs policy and land management decisions, helping to support a sustainable future.<\/p>\n

The easier we can make it for everyone to understand the value of these maps, and the easier we can make it to extract useful insights, the greater our reach will be and the greater our chances of having a positive and meaningful impact. This is why, last year, we released the Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer<\/a>. Simple, Accessible, and Insightful, this app is part of our growing family of imagery explorer web apps designed to engage a broad community for Earth exploration and discovery.<\/p>\n

Along with the 2023 content update, we also added a few enhancements to the app. See below for more details.<\/p>\n

What’s new with Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer?<\/h3>\n

Well, we swizzled some things around to improve the interface and make for a smoother and more consistent user experience. We also add a few new features.<\/p>\n

We added some new controls in the map panel:<\/p>\n