Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface. FAO estimates that around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to ...

“There’s so much change, and so much need in the world for this kind of information,” Breyer says. “A lot of large countries don’t have access to an annual land cover map at the rate ...

Siberia, a province located in Russia, is a significant geographical region playing a crucial role in the world's carbon cycle ... unveils a refined land cover map for Siberia.

and those images cover areas where 98 percent of the entire population lives. As CNET notes, this is the first time Google released figures revealing the scope of Maps, which is one of its most ...

Using advanced machine learning techniques and existing multiple land cover maps, they were able to address the significant discrepancies found in the previous datasets. Being one of the world's ...