This report summarizes discussions from a workshop of users and producers of land-use and land-cover (LULC) scenarios, convened by USGCRP's Scenarios and Interpretive Science Coordinating Group on June 25-27, 2014. The report focuses on needs, resources/capabilities, and barriers/opportunities for producing national-scale, regionally differentiated, and spatially explicit LULC scenarios for the United States. It describes options for agency and interagency activities that would advance this research but makes no recommendations.

Urbanization is an important component of global environment change. Inspite of advances in remote sensing technologies, monitoring urban landscapes at large scales remains a challenging task. This study demonstates a methodology to map urban land expansion at continental-global scale.

As one of the rapidly urbanizing regions of the world, East and Southeast Asia is experiencing high rates of built-up expansion and population growth. The higher rate of growth of urban population compared to urban land has resulted in increased densities of major urban agglomerations. The results of this study contrasts previous sample-based studies, which conclude that cities are universally declining in density.

The QuickBird mission ended on 27 January,2015. During its 13 year of service it orbited the Earth over 70,000 times capturing 636 million square kilometers of high resolution imagery of the Earth's surface. QucikBird captured it's last image on 17 December, 2014 at Port Elizabeth in South Africa.

The data will be accessible on EarthExplorer by the US Geological Service (USGS).The release dates for different regions are:

• November 2014: Mexico, South America
• January 2015: Australia, Southeast Asia
• April 2015: North America, Europe
• July 2015: China, Japan
• September 2015: Northeast Africa