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Global Land Cover Map,
PROBA-V, produced by Copernicus programme, Global Land Service
The Copernicus Global Land Service released its new global land cover layers. You can access a discrete map and 10 continuous cover fractions (9 base land cover classes and seasonal water).
Read more at https://blog.vito.be/remotesensing/lcviewer
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Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

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Did you know that agriculture is responsible for up to 70% of all water withdrawals in the world? With water becoming more scarce, making every drop count will become even more important in the future. But how can we use water resources in a more sustainable way?

Today the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) releases a..
Laurent Tits 17.06.2019
Agriculture, land cover, irrigation, FAO, WaPOR
CropSAR lets us guard our crops from space, even when they're hiding beneath the clouds!

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019
Time series, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, EO Data, Sentinel-1
The main reason for plastic debris is our misuse of (disposable) plastic. We need to map the plastic flux from land to sea, so that we can draw up efficient mitigation measures.

Plastic debris. Time to turn the tide ...

Lisa Devriese 23.05.2019
Water & coast, plastic, zwerfvuil, VLIZ

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019
Land use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, land cover, fractional covers
Being part of the TRUSTEE Innovative Training Network allows VITO to continue to aspire for excellence in research

Training our future scientists and ecosystem modellers

Ils Reusen 02.05.2019
Remote Sensing, ecosystem, training, TRUSTEE
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Global Land Cover Map,

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Mapping irrigated areas over Africa and the Near East

Laurent Tits 17.06.2019
Agriculture, land cover, irrigation, FAO, WaPOR

Looking through the clouds to improve crop monitoring!

Kristof Van Tricht 03.06.2019
Time series, Agriculture, Sentinel-2, EO Data, Sentinel-1

Plastic debris. Time to turn the tide ...

Lisa Devriese 23.05.2019
Water & coast, plastic, zwerfvuil, VLIZ

Time to release the new and improved land cover maps

Marcel Buchhorn 14.05.2019
Land use, PROBA-V, Copernicus, land cover, fractional covers

Training our future scientists and ecosystem modellers

Ils Reusen 02.05.2019
Remote Sensing, ecosystem, training, TRUSTEE

Copernicus monitoring the state of the world’s climate

Iskander Benhadj 24.04.2019
EO Data, Copernicus, climate change, essential climate variables, C3S
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