In 2022, The Ministry for the Environment contracted Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research to map Aotearoa New Zealand’s land use as at the end of 2020, to support international greenhouse gas reporting under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris agreement.
This report details the methodology used to create the LUCAS 2020 land use map from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
In 2022, The Ministry for the Environment contracted Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research to map Aotearoa New Zealand’s land use as at the end of 2020, to support international greenhouse gas reporting under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris agreement.
This report details the methodology used to create the LUCAS 2020 land use map from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.