This section provides an interactive map to visualize the geography and ecology of Gilgit-Baltistan. The mapping section is built upon the Open Street Maps (Operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation) and Leaflet (Leaflet open-source JavaScript library by Vladimir Agafonkin) with number of base maps, ranging from simple grey canvas to satellite imagery for the region. The base map can be changed from bottom right icon in the map. The overlay layers cover topography, ecoregions, land-cover, temperature, aridity and other physical aspects of Gilgit-Baltistan. For each overlay map you can select different categories individually from the Overlay icon on the top right. Additionally each map section is also supplemented with a statistical table. The table presents numerical/statistical breakup of various categories and aspects for the whole of Gilgit-Baltistan and for each district.

Map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from ESA Sentinel-2 imagery at 10m resolution. It is a composite of LULC predictions for main land use classes throughout the year in order to generate a representative snapshot of 2020. The map uses 6 bands of Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data, on multiple dates of imagery throughout the year, and the outputs are composited into a final representative map of 2020. For classification of vegetation forest is considered significant clustering of tall (~15-m or higher) dense vegetation; open areas covered in homogenous with little to no taller vegetation are labeled grasslands; croplands are planted/plotted cereals, grasses, and crops not at tree height; and Scrub/shrub is mix of small clusters of plants or single plants dispersed on a landscape that shows exposed soil or rock. This map is produced by Karra, Kontgis, et al. (Global land use/land cover with Sentinel-2 and deep learning.) IGARSS 2021-2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2021.