Land cover analysis uses satellite imagery to map which parts of your parcel are trees, crops, water, or built area. If you choose two years, the same file also shows the change between them. For each parcel, we prepare a KMZ file that opens in Google Earth. You can forward the file to your field team as is; the team sees the parcel boundary and the cover map on the same screen.
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2025
2017Land cover
| 2017 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Crops | 71.4% | 67.9% |
| Built Area | 24.7% | 32.1% |
| Rangeland | 3.8% | 0.0% |
Esri land cover, 2025; inset map 2017 · 10 m · Akdağmadeni, Yozgat (25 ha test parcel)
Land cover: Esri, Impact Observatory, Microsoft · CC BY 4.0 · clipped to the parcel · © OpenStreetMap contributors
When you open the file in Google Earth, you see the parcel's land cover map for each year you chose as a separate layer. The parcel boundary and the map legend are in the file too.
Esri land cover, 10 m · Akdağmadeni, Yozgat · 25 ha test parcel
Land cover: Esri, Impact Observatory, Microsoft · CC BY 4.0 · clipped to the parcel · © OpenStreetMap contributors
The parcel's info balloon lists the dominant cover type for each year, the area of each cover type in hectares and as a percentage, and the parcel's coordinates.
Akdağmadeni test parcel
Land Cover
2017 · dominant: Crops
| Crops | 17.86 ha | 71.4% |
|---|---|---|
| Built Area | 6.19 ha | 24.7% |
| Rangeland | 0.95 ha | 3.8% |
2025 · dominant: Crops
| Crops | 16.96 ha | 67.9% |
|---|---|---|
| Built Area | 8.03 ha | 32.1% |
Coordinates: 39.7500°, 36.0000°
You can look at a single year or compare two years; any year from 2016 to this year can be selected. If you choose the current year, the map is produced from imagery taken between January 1 and the day the job is run, and is marked as a partial year in the file.
Two selected years: 2017 and 2025This year: partial year
Besides trees, crops, water, and built area, the map shows other cover types, such as rangeland and bare ground, in separate colors. The file is prepared in Turkish, English, or both; if you choose both, you get two separate files for each parcel.
If you like, we can add wetland screening to the same job; the screening result appears in the parcel's info balloon.
We take your parcel boundary file.
We set the scope together with you: a single year or a comparison of two years, which years, whether to add wetland screening, and the file language.
We process every parcel in one run, with the same settings.
We deliver each parcel's KMZ file.
Turnaround time
With a system we built ourselves, we cut file and report preparation from months to weeks, even days.
Shows, with a map and hectares, what covers the parcel in each selected year.
When two years are compared, the difference can be read from the same file. For example, if a section that was cropland in 2018 is built area in 2025, you see this in the layers and area tables for both years.
The info balloon also states the map's source and resolution.
Anyone reading the file sees from the file itself what the map is based on. A year without a cloud-free image is marked "no data" in the file; a partial year is set apart by the mark next to its year label.
You can add this file to your compliance documentation as a dated record of the parcel's cover in given years, with areas.
With the same file, your field team also finds the section it will check on the map.
Let's start with a single parcel, set up for your goal; once you have reviewed the file in Google Earth, move on to the whole portfolio.
We analyze every parcel in your portfolio for your chosen periods with the same settings.
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Before the project starts, we screen each parcel for overlap with wetlands and deliver the result and its reasoning in a file that opens in Google Earth.
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We map where and how much changed between two dates; for fire and cover loss, we provide the event period and a change table relative to the cut-off date.
ViewThis dataset is produced for the Dynamic World Project by Google in partnership with National Geographic Society and the World Resources Institute. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020, 2024, 2026 · CC BY 4.0
