Table 3 Details of land use/land cover datasets.

1

ESRI Land cover

Sentinel- 2

10 m

https://gisgeography.com/living-atlas-of-the-world/

2

Global Land Survey (GLS)

Landsat 7 ETM+

30 m

The University of Maryland with the USGS

3

European Space Agency- Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI)

ENVISAT

300 m

http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php

4

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

MODIS

500 m

https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod12.php; Friedl et al.²⁴⁰

5

Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC)

Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer

1000 m

Loveland et al.²⁴¹

6

GlobeLand30

Landsat

30 m

https://gisgeography.com/usgs-earth-explorer-download-free-landsat-imagery/

7

National Land Cover Database (NLCD)

NOAA- USGS

30 m

https://www.usgs.gov/node/279743

8

SPOT 5

SPOT

20 m

Bartholomé and Belward¹⁷¹

9

Synthetic Aperture Radar

SAR

25 m

Balzter et al.¹⁷²

10

Copernicus Global Land Service

PROBA- V

100 m

https://land.copernicus.eu/global/lcviewer

11

NASA SERVIR Mekong

Landsat 4–7

30 m

https://landcovermapping.org/en/landcover/