Making a global threshold explorable

Challenge

A landmark finding is only as influential as it is accessible. A number in a paper does not tell a planner what their own landscape looks like against the threshold.

Data

• Global functional-integrity layers from the study
• Human-modified landscape classification

Intelligence

• An interactive Google Earth Engine application to explore the study's results anywhere on Earth

Technology

• Google Earth Engine
• JavaScript

Outcome

• Researchers, policymakers and the public can inspect the threshold map directly
• The study's message travels beyond the paywall