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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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A global land cover training dataset from 1984 to 2020 · Sankore

A global land cover training dataset from 1984 to 2020

2023Scientific DataPublicationOpen access

10.1038/s41597-023-02798-5 Full text54 citations

Authors

26 authors across 15 institutions in 7 countries.

Radost StanimirovaFirst authorCorresponding
Katelyn Tarrio
Konrad Turlej
Kristina McAvoy
Sophia Stonebrook
Kai-Ting Hu
Paulo Arévalo
Eric L. Bullock
Yingtong Zhang
Curtis E. Woodcock
Pontus Olofsson
Zhe Zhu
Christopher P. Barber
Carlos M. Souza

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Remote Sensing in Agriculturelevel 3 · 1.00
Species Distribution and Climate Changelevel 3 · 1.00
Land Use and Ecosystem Serviceslevel 3 · 1.00

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openalexseen September 5, 2026
2023 · Scientific Data · 54 citations
https://openalex.org/W4389429189

Jonathan A. Wang

University of Ghana (GH)
Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (GH)

Marco Calderón-Loor

Michalis Hadjikakou

Jordan Graesser

Dereje L. Beyene

Sylvester Siame

Mark A. FriedlSenior author