Article is Top Cited in Journal (2021-2022)

In 2021-2022 the top cited paper in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation was Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land-cover datasets in times of global change.

This paper outlines the advantages and disadvantages of regional and global land-cover and land-use datasets. Both regional and global datasets serve a purpose, with regional data providing additional specificity that is required for policy making. They discuss five themes of regional and global land-use datasets: (1) thematic resolution, (2) consistency of class legends, (3) temporal resolution, (4) training and validation algorithms, (5) accuracy and uncertainty. The paper also makes recommendations for land-use products derived from Earth Observation (EO) data. A few of those recommendations include ensuring the global and regional land-use products are compatible and nested, doing more consistent ground data collection and conducting regional accuracy assessments.

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