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What is GLOBE?
GLOBE (Global Collaboration Engine) is an online collaborative environment that enables land change researchers to share, compare and integrate local and regional studies with global data to assess the global relevance of their work.
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Why is GLOBE needed?
Remote sensing and climate modeling have revolutionized our global understanding of changes in climate and land cover.  Yet the coupled human and environmental systems that cause these changes are not observable from space, nor can they be understood globally without local knowledge of how these systems interact and cause change. GLOBE links local knowledge with global data to accelerate global understanding of land change processes.
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What are the benefits?
GLOBE allows researchers and institutions to rapidly share, compare and synthesizelocal and regional studies using global datasets of human and environmental variables through two types of analysis: Similarity and Representativeness.
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How Globe Works
How does GLOBE work?
GLOBE uses paradigms from collaborative social computing and advanced statistical models to aggregate and analyze local and regional CHANS case studies to enable the synthesis and integration of globally-relevant information for land change scientists.
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who we are
Who are we?
GLOBE is an NSF funded project conducted in collaboration with the Global Land Project and a team of UMBC researchers and students of Geography and Environmental Systems (GES), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and Information Systems (IS).   Learn More >
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how to start
How to start?
GLOBE is now open to new users from the land change science community.  Click here to get a login to use GLOBE.
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What’s new in GLOBE?
Checkout the new capabilities, features, and applications of GLOBE as the come online.
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