Xinjiang Oasis Land Cover Maps for 2000–2024 with Seasonal Data

30 GeoTIFF files provide land cover mapping for Xinjiang's oases across six epochs from 2000 to 2024 at 5-year intervals. Each year includes five maps: one annual composite and four seasonal products for spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The dataset was authored by Lu Chen and published on figshare in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term oasis expansion or contraction based on the 5-year interval maps from 2000 to 2024.
• Study seasonal vegetation patterns and phenology based on the four seasonal mapping products.
• Train land cover classification models for arid regions using the multi-temporal GeoTIFF imagery.
• Monitor environmental changes in Xinjiang by comparing annual composite maps across the 24-year period.

Strengths

• Covers a 24-year time span (2000–2024) with observations at six distinct epochs.
• Includes seasonal granularity with four separate maps per year (spring, summer, autumn, winter).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, resolution, and classification schema require manual inspection.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Time Range

2000–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 12:41:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Xinjiang, China (oasis regions)