Products · Land and change
Land Use and Land Cover
What is on the ground, classified consistently across four decades.
Processing service delivered per area of interest
Overview
What covers this land, how is it used, and how has that changed?
Automated classification of any defined area into built-up, agriculture, forest, rangeland, water and barren land, or into an 11-class global scheme that adds shrubland, wetland, mangrove, snow and sparse vegetation, with class schemes extendable to a client's own nomenclature. Self-supervised remote-sensing foundation models fine-tuned on locally produced labels reach high accuracy with modest labelling effort and generalise to new areas; optical and radar time series are fused where cloud cover demands it. Run for a single date, updated through the season, or as a forty-year series showing how each class has traded area with the others.
- 6- or 11-class schemes, extendable
- Classes
- 1984 to present
- Record
- Single date, in-season or annual series
- Cadence
- Fine-tuned geospatial foundation model
- Model
How it works
Pipeline and maturity of each stage
- 01
Imagery and labels
OperationalCloud-masked multispectral and radar imagery for the requested dates, with labels produced in the platform's labelling tools for the client's class scheme.
- 02
Classification
OperationalA geospatial foundation model fine-tuned on those labels classifies every pixel; results are aggregated to parcels or administrative units on request.
- 03
Change and delivery
OperationalMulti-date runs are compared class by class to quantify transitions, delivered as classified rasters, change matrices and a report.
Data used
- Sentinel-2
- Sentinel-1 SAR
- Landsat 5–9 archive
- Client class schemes and labels
Methods and models
- Geospatial foundation model fine-tuning
- Multi-date class transition analysis
- SAR and optical fusion
Outputs
- Classified raster (GeoTIFF)
- Class statistics and transition matrix
- Change map between dates
- PDF report
Who it is for
- Urban planning and cadastre
- Environmental agencies and protected areas
- Agricultural and forestry statistics
- Baselines for development programmes
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