Global Bare Ground Gain in the First Decade of 21st Century from Landsat Data: the Preliminary Results on Estimation and Distribution

Qing Ying1, Peter Potapov2, Lei Wang2 and Matthew Hansen3, (1)NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States