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This blog tells data-driven stories about land use/cover change. It accompanies the HILDA+ project and provides some thoughts, ideas, maps and video clips along the way of trying to uncover and understand changes of the land surface.

The HILDA+ project

Data-driven reconstruction of global land use/cover change from 1960 to 2019 HILDA+, the global HIstoric Land Dynamics Assessment, is part of a PHD project on open data-driven reconstruction of our planets’ changing land surface. Based on harmonised earth observation data and national land use statistics, we aim to provide global…Continue reading “The HILDA+ project”

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Sneak peak on HiLDA+ Global Land Use Change

1 Jun 20202 Sep 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's EGU General Assembly 2020 took place as an online event: Sharing Geoscience Online (4-8 May 2020). I used this experimental virtual conference…

Data…

Catching stars from a flying data swarm: Top 5 satellite data for exploring land change.

14 Nov 20192 Sep 2020

More data are better data? Lost in a swarm of satellites We live in the age of “big data” – an era of more and more numbers, matrices, and images…

Sneak peak on HiLDA+ Global Land Use Change

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s EGU General Assembly 2020 took place as an online event: Sharing Geoscience Online (4-8 May 2020). I used this experimental virtual conference set-up as a platform to present my research, originally planned to be a standard talk, in a slightly different format. science meets cinema Who says […]

Catching stars from a flying data swarm: Top 5 satellite data for exploring land change.

More data are better data? Lost in a swarm of satellites We live in the age of “big data” – an era of more and more numbers, matrices, and images becoming available to many people at increasing speed. And, we, as society, are incredibly good in building more and more algorithms and tools that produce […]