Xiao-Peng Song

TL;DR: Satellite data for the period 1982–2016 reveal changes in land use and land cover at global and regional scales that reflect patterns of land change indicative of a human-dominated Earth system.

TL;DR: A global, 30-m resolution dataset of percent tree cover by rescaling the 250-m MOderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) Tree Cover layer using circa- 2000 and 2005 Landsat images, incorporating the MODIS Cropland Layer to improve accuracy in agricultural areas.

TL;DR: The methods to create global products of forest cover and cover change at Landsat resolutions are described and the creation and use of surface reflectance products, improved selection of scenes to reduce phenological differences, terrain illumination correction, and the use of information extraction procedures robust to errors in training data are evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an empirical method for retrieving annual, long-term continuous fields of impervious surface cover from the Landsat archive and applied it to the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore, MD megalopolis from 1984 to 2010.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that land management in southern China has been removing an amount of carbon equivalent to 33% of regional fossil CO2 emissions during the last 6 years, but forest growth saturation, land competition for food production and soil-water depletion challenge the longevity of this carbon sink service.