Global islands
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Abstract
A new map of global islands at a high spatial resolution (30 m) has been produced from a semi-automated interpretation of 2014 satellite imagery. The data are available in the public domain. The islands were classified by size into continental mainlands (5), big islands > 1 km2 (21,818), and small islands ≤ 1 km2 (318,868). The new high-resolution islands data are intended to support coastal ecosystem mapping efforts and assessments of threatened island biodiversity, among other applications. This chapter summarizes the global island mapping approach and results.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
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| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Global islands |
| DOI | 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12475-3 |
| Year Published | 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Land Change Science |
| Description | 4 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes |
| First page | 47 |
| Last page | 50 |
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