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...This highlights the need to strengthen initiatives for the creation ofsfiner resolution land cover maps, such as the Chinese project that intends to map the global land coversbased on Landsat imagery =-=[56]-=-.s5.5. Validation DatabasessGiven the lack of datasets at high spatial resolutions in Africa to validate Global LandsCover Products, the use of GoogleEarth© data as a reference dataset proved valuable...

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...ware package. Parameters weresautomatically estimated or set by information from metadata. The GM package was developed forsvarious satellite data preprocessing. An introduction to it can be found in =-=[9]-=-. Bands 1–7 of all imagesswere first calibrated to top of atmosphere reflectance, and then converted to surface reflectance aftersatmospheric correction and topographic correction. Bands 10–11 were co...

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...2.0-Valmiera (2013) and Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Version 6.4 (2012). LULCMaps The first LULC map was built using free and accessible global data from Gong et al., (2013) =-=[27,28]-=-, offering a cheap and simple method of gaining LULC data that was originally built on a global dataset (Table 1). This 30m-resolution global land cover map (also known as Finer Resolution Observation...