Global Pasture Watch

  • The Land & Carbon Lab Global Pasture Watch initiative develops global products for grasslands and livestock grazing using geospatial monitoring, machine learning, ecology, and agriculture expertise.

  • Available datasets include global annual dominant class and probability maps of cultivated and natural/semi-natural grasslands from 2000 to 2022 at 30-m spatial resolution.

  • Additional datasets provide global median vegetation height and uncalibrated Gross Primary Productivity from 2000 onwards at 30-m spatial resolution.

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.