RLCMS - Mekong
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The Regional Land Cover Monitoring System (RCLMS) provides a series of 30-m resolution annual land cover maps with a multi-purpose typology for the years 2000-2016. These regional land cover maps are highly accurate and are designed to serve explicit user-defined objectives. Other features of these maps include:
- High levels of consistency over time, achieved using a consistent regional classification scheme that harmonizes the land cover typologies from five Lower Mekong countries;
- Twenty-two (22) land cover categories, identified through regional consultative meetings;
- Annual or bi-annual updates, which leverage openly available remote sensing data sources;
- Stakeholder-driven classification supports high levels of accuracy and allows for customization.
The purpose of the RLCMS is to facilitate the production of custom, high-quality land cover information products to serve a variety of policy, planning, management, and reporting needs of regional and national institutions in the Lower Mekong Region. The system leverages the power of Google Earth Engine and relies in most cases on field observations and the interpretation of high resolution imagery by stakeholders relevant to a given project. Once the system has been customized to deliver a given product or set of products, these can be updated regularly in a structured manner to serve ongoing monitoring needs.
