Mapping Land Use Dynamics Using the Collective Power of the Crowd

Traditional land use and land cover (LULC) mapping has long relied strongly on input from Earth Observation (EO) data sources at various resolutions and scale levels. With high performance and cloud computing on the rise, rapid processing of large volumes of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery—big EO data—is becoming less problematic. Consequently, scientific challenges in that topical domain move on to the next level.