Visualizing Patterns of Land Cover Change in Indonesia
For decades, Indonesia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. The scale of this growth is actually quite easy to analyze and visualize with data from the European Space Agency’s CCI Global Land Cover product that was recently updated in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to extend from 1992-2019.
So how was this map made? Unlike most cooking recipe blogs, I’ll cut right to the chase (instead of 8 paragraphs of inane babble).
Prepping the Layers
Living Atlas provides some incredibly useful content – simple things like the Provinces of Indonesia that would otherwise take time to find and download shapefiles from some random website. There’s also the complex imagery layers like the ESA CCI Global Land Cover that can be used for a variety of mapping and analysis applications. I simply dragged both into ArcGIS Pro.