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Tropical Moist Forests - Hybrid Transition map
A hybrid transition map is available at a resolution of 10m for the period from 1990 to 2022. This beta version combines the recently updated TMF map for the year 2022, derived from Landsat images at ...
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ESA WorldCover 2020
ESA WorldCover 2020. Global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2021 based on Sentinel-1 and 2 data.
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ESA WorldCover 2021
ESA WorldCover 2021. Global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2021 based on Sentinel-1 and 2 data.
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Global mining footprint
Mining has major economic, environmental and societal consequences, yet knowledge and understanding of its global footprint are still limited. These polygons represent the global mining land use detec...
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Mining polygons (Version 2) - PANGAEA
This data set provides spatially explicit estimates of the area directly used for surface mining on a global scale. It contains 44,929 polygon features, covering 101,583 km² of land used by the global...
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
The NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) global 1 arc second (~30 metre) DEM is archived and distributed by the Lan...
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Annual gross water loss through evaporation from hydropower reservoirs (mcm/year
Dam-induced impoundment of water in hydropower reservoirs usually causes enlarged water surfaces compared to the waterbody extent prior to dam construction (with the exception of reservoirs constraine...
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Annual evaporation from hydropower reservoirs
Evaporation from hydropower reservoirs represents a key component of the reservoir water budget. Depending on the different climate regimes on the continent, the rate of evaporation from open water ch...
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Annual gross water loss vs annual energy production of hydropower plants (mcm/GW
In 2016, a total of 42 billion cubic meters of water was lost through evaporation in hydropower reservoirs in Africa. A huge amount compared to the 1.2 billion cubic meters lost from all the other fue...
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Installed capacities of hydropower plants
The hydropower installed capacity indicates the amount of energy a hydropower plant can produce in its turbines. In 2016, hydropower accounted for 54% of the installed capacity in Eastern Africa, 58% ...
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Europe Media Monitor News
The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) News Brief is a summary of news stories from around the world, automatically classified according to thousands of criteria. It is generated automatically every 10 minute...
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Global Distribution of Coral Reefs
Warm-water coral reefs are the most biodiverse of marine habitats and the most important ecosystem engineers found in the marine environment. Most of this diversity is not due to the corals themselves...
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Hydrological Basins in Africa
Africa is home to the longest river in the world -the Nile- and other major rivers like the Congo and the Niger. This layer shows the official boundaries of river (sub-)basins in Africa (approved and ...
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Global rainfall erosivity change projections (2070 RCP 8.5)
The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver of soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. This map shows the geographical dist...
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Global rainfall erosivity change projections (2070 RCP 4.5)
The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver of soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. This map shows the geographical dist...
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