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Background reading, reference material and classification schemes to help you understand and work with Living Earth data.
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Environmental Descriptors
Browse the full set of environmental descriptors by category, or jump straight to a country's data.
Supporting Science
Journal articles and book chapters describing the Living Earth approach and its applications.
Example Notebooks
Worked Jupyter notebook examples, starting with Digital Earth Australia's land cover.
Land Cover
FAO's Land Cover Classification System (LCCS v2) — a consistent framework for classifying land cover from local to global scales, with over 12,000 possible classes.
FAO Land Cover Classification System →
Habitats
Country- and region-specific habitat classification, built on FAO LCCS land cover classes combined with local ecological context. Currently generated for Wales.
JNCC habitat classification →
Change
A global taxonomy of 246 impact-pressure classes for describing and comparing observed environmental change, built on the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework.
Change, Impacts and Pressures →