Global Pasture Watch

  • The Global Pasture Watch research consortium, initiated by the Land & Carbon Lab, focuses on developing global products for grasslands and livestock grazing.

  • The consortium comprises experts in geospatial monitoring, machine learning, ecology, and agriculture from leading research institutions.

  • Three key datasets are provided: annual probability maps of cultivated grasslands, dominant class maps of grasslands, and annual probability maps of natural/semi-natural grasslands.

  • These datasets offer global coverage from 2000 to 2022 at a 30-meter spatial resolution.

  • The mapped grassland extent includes any land cover type containing at least 30% grassland.

The Land & Carbon Lab, convened by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Bezos Earth Fund, established the Global Pasture Watch research consortium. The consortium, which is made up of experts in geospatial monitoring, machine learning, ecology and agriculture across some of the world's leading research institutions, is developing global products for grasslands and livestock grazing in the 21st century.