Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 236; p. 111510
• Main Authors: Gong, Peng, Li, Xuecao, Wang, Jie, Bai, Yuqi, Chen, Bin, Hu, Tengyun, Liu, Xiaoping, Xu, Bing, Yang, Jun, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Yuyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.01.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Algorithms; Archives & records; Arid regions; Biodiversity; Brazil; Canada; China; Datasets; Environmental impact; France; Germany; Google Earth; Human settlements; India; Internet; Italy; Japan; Land use; Landsat; Landsat data; Landsat satellites; Mapping; Radar data; Remote sensing; Rural development; Russia; Satellite imagery; Stormwater; Synthetic aperture radar; United States; Urbanization; United States > US; China; Canada; United States; Japan; Brazil; Italy; France; Germany; India; Russia; Urbanization; Landsat data; Rural development; Google Earth; Human settlements

Artificial impervious areas are predominant indicators of human settlements. Timely, accurate, and frequent information on artificial impervious areas is critical to understanding the process of urbanization and land use/cover change, as well as of their impacts on the environment and biodiversity....