🌍 Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection Using Google Earth Engine: Step-by-Step Guide Introduction Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change detection is a vital application in remote sensing and GIS. It helps researchers and planners understand how landscapes evolve over time due to urbanization, deforestation, and other human or natural influences. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to use Dynamic World (DW) — Google’s near-real-time global land cover dataset — to detect built-up area expansion between 2016 and 2024 using Google Earth Engine (GEE) . 1️⃣ Step 1: Define the Study Area We’ll start by defining a study area — for example, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia . // Example: Define study area var studyArea = ee. FeatureCollection ( 'FAO/GAUL_SIMPLIFIED_500m/2015/level2' ) . filter (ee. Filter . eq ( 'ADM2_NAME' , ' Addis Ababa ' )); Map . centerObject (studyArea, 10 ); 2️⃣ Step 2: Load Dynamic World Classified Data Dynamic World provides ...