AI-generated Key Takeaways
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Several datasets provide global land cover information at varying resolutions, including Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers, Dynamic World V1, ESA WorldCover, GlobCover, and MODIS Land Cover Type products.
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Regional and national land cover datasets are available for specific areas like Europe (CORINE, LUCAS), North America (Land Cover of North America, NLCD, RCMAP), Cote d'Ivoire, China, and Iran.
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Some datasets focus on specific land cover aspects or features, such as the China Terrace Map, Farmscapes 2020 for agricultural features in England, and GPW datasets for grassland types.
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Several datasets include information on land cover change detection and monitoring, such as the Google Global Landsat-based CCDC Segments and the USFS Landscape Change Monitoring System.
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The collection also includes data related to urban landscapes (Global map of Local Climate Zones), natural and non-natural lands (SBTN Natural Lands Map), and vegetation characteristics like tree canopy cover (USFS Tree Canopy Cover) and phenology (MODIS Land Cover Dynamics, VNP22Q2).
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Copernicus CORINE Land Cover
The CORINE (coordination of information on the environment) Land Cover (CLC) inventory was initiated in 1985 to standardize data collection on land in Europe to support environmental policy development. The project is coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU … copernicus eea esa eu landcover landuse-landcover -
Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers: CGLS-LC100 Collection 3
The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is earmarked as a component of the Land service to operate a multi-purpose service component that provides a series of bio-geophysical products on the status and evolution of land surface at global scale. The Dynamic Land Cover map at … copernicus eea esa eu landcover landuse-landcover -
Cote d'Ivoire BNETD 2020 Land Cover Map
The Cote d'Ivoire BNETD 2020 Land Cover Map was produced by the Ivorian Government through a national institution, the Center for Geographic Information and Digital from the National Study Office Techniques and Development (BNETD-CIGN), with technical and financial support from the European Union. The methodology … classification deforestation forest landcover landuse-landcover -
DESS China Terrace Map v1
This dataset is a China terrace map at 30 m resolution in 2018. It was developed through supervised pixel-based classification using multisource and multi-temporal data based on the Google Earth Engine platform. The overall accuracy and kappa coefficient achieved 94% and 0.72, respectively. This first … agriculture landcover landuse landuse-landcover tsinghua -
Dynamic World V1
Dynamic World is a 10m near-real-time (NRT) Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) dataset that includes class probabilities and label information for nine classes. Dynamic World predictions are available for the Sentinel-2 L1C collection from 2015-06-27 to present. The revisit frequency of Sentinel-2 is between 2-5 days … global google landcover landuse landuse-landcover nrt -
ESA WorldCover 10m v100
The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover 10 m 2020 product provides a global land cover map for 2020 at 10 m resolution based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The WorldCover product comes with 11 land cover classes and has been generated in the framework of … esa landcover landuse landuse-landcover sentinel1-derived sentinel2-derived -
ESA WorldCover 10m v200
The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover 10 m 2021 product provides a global land cover map for 2021 at 10 m resolution based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The WorldCover product comes with 11 land cover classes and has been generated in the framework of … esa landcover landuse landuse-landcover sentinel1-derived sentinel2-derived -
Farmscapes 2020
The Farmscapes 2020 dataset provides high-resolution (25cm) probability maps for three key semi-natural features within England's agricultural landscapes: hedgerows, woodland, and stone walls. This dataset was developed in collaboration with the Oxford Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery to serve as a baseline for applications including … biodiversity climate conservation forest landuse-landcover nature-trace -
GPW Annual Dominant Class of Grasslands v1
This dataset provides global annual dominant class maps of grasslands (cultivated and natural/semi-natural) from 2000 to 2022 at 30-m spatial resolution. Produced by the Land & Carbon Lab Global Pasture Watch initiative, the mapped grassland extent includes any land cover type, which contains at least … global global-pasture-watch land landcover landuse landuse-landcover -
GPW Annual Probabilities of Cultivated Grasslands v1
This dataset provides global annual probability maps of cultivated grassland from 2000 to 2022 at 30-m spatial resolution. Produced by the Land & Carbon Lab Global Pasture Watch initiative, the mapped grassland extent includes any land cover type, which contains at least 30% of dry … global global-pasture-watch land landcover landuse landuse-landcover -
GPW Annual Probabilities of Natural/Semi-natural Grasslands v1
This dataset provides global annual probability maps of natural/semi-natural grassland from 2000 to 2022 at 30-m spatial resolution. Produced by the Land & Carbon Lab Global Pasture Watch initiative, the mapped grassland extent includes any land cover type, which contains at least 30% of dry … global global-pasture-watch land landcover landuse landuse-landcover -
GlobCover: Global Land Cover Map
GlobCover 2009 is a global land cover map based on ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Level 1B data acquired in full resolution mode with a spatial resolution of approximately 300 meters. esa landcover landuse-landcover -
Global map of Local Climate Zones, latest version
Since their introduction in 2012, Local Climate Zones (LCZs) emerged as a new standard for characterizing urban landscapes, providing a holistic classification approach that takes into account micro-scale land-cover and associated physical properties. This global map of Local Climate Zones, at 100m pixel size and … climate landcover landuse-landcover urban -
Google Global Landsat-based CCDC Segments (1999-2019)
This collection contains precomputed results from running the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm on 20 years of Landsat surface reflectance data. CCDC is a break-point finding algorithm that uses harmonic fitting with a dynamic RMSE threshold to detect breakpoints in time-series data. The … change-detection google landcover landsat-derived landuse landuse-landcover -
Iran Land Cover Map v1 13-class (2017)
The Iran-wide land cover map was generated by processing Sentinel imagery within the Google Earth Engine Cloud platform. For this purpose, over 2,500 Sentinel-1 and over 11,000 Sentinel-2 images were processed to produce a single mosaic dataset for the year 2017. Then, an object-based Random … landcover landuse-landcover -
LUCAS Copernicus (Polygons with attributes, 2018) V1
The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) in the European Union (EU) was set up to provide statistical information. It represents a triennial in-situ landcover and land-use data-collection exercise that extends over the whole of the EU's territory. LUCAS collects information on land cover and … copernicus eu jrc landcover landuse landuse-landcover -
LUCAS Harmonized (Theoretical Location, 2006-2018) V1
The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) in the European Union (EU) was set up to provide statistical information. It represents a triennial in-situ landcover and land-use data-collection exercise that extends over the whole of the EU's territory. LUCAS collects information on land cover and … eu jrc landcover landuse landuse-landcover lucas -
Land Cover of North America at 30 meters, 2020
The 2020 North American Land Cover 30-meter dataset was produced as part of the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS), a trilateral effort between Natural Resources Canada, the United States Geological Survey, and three Mexican organizations including the National Institute of Statistics and Geography … landcover landsat landuse-landcover nlcd reflectance -
MCD12C1.061 MODIS Land Cover Type Yearly Global 0.05 Deg CMG
The Terra and Aqua combined Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) (MCD12C1) Version 6.1 data product provides a spatially aggregated and reprojected version of the tiled MCD12Q1 Version 6.1 data product. Maps of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), University of … landcover landuse-landcover modis nasa usgs yearly -
MCD12Q1.061 MODIS Land Cover Type Yearly Global 500m
The Terra and Aqua combined Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Type (MCD12Q1) Version 6.1 data product provides global land cover types at yearly intervals. The MCD12Q1 Version 6.1 data product is derived using supervised classifications of MODIS Terra and Aqua reflectance data. Land … landcover landuse-landcover modis nasa usgs yearly -
MCD12Q2.006 Land Cover Dynamics Yearly Global 500m
The Terra and Aqua combined Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Dynamics (MCD12Q2) Version 6.1 data product provides global land surface phenology metrics at yearly intervals. The MCD12Q2 Version 6.1 data product is derived from time series of the 2-band Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI2) … evi global landuse-landcover modis onset-greenness phenology -
MOD44B.061 Terra Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly Global 250m
The Terra MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product is a sub-pixel-level representation of surface vegetation cover estimates globally. Designed to continuously represent Earth's terrestrial surface as a proportion of basic vegetation traits, it provides a gradation of three surface cover components: percent tree cover, percent … annual geophysical global landuse-landcover modis nasa -
NLCD 2019: USGS National Land Cover Database, 2019 release
NLCD (the National Land Cover Database) is a 30-m Landsat-based land cover database spanning 8 epochs (2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019). A ninth epoch for 2021 is also available here. The images rely on the imperviousness data layer for the urban … blm landcover landuse-landcover mrlc nlcd usgs -
NLCD 2021: USGS National Land Cover Database, 2021 release
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with several federal agencies, has now developed and released seven National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products: NLCD 1992, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2019, and 2021. Beginning with the 2016 release, land cover products were created for two-to-three-year intervals … blm landcover landuse-landcover mrlc nlcd usgs -
Oxford MAP: Malaria Atlas Project Fractional International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Landcover
The underlying dataset for this landcover product is the IGBP layer found within the MODIS annual landcover product (MCD12Q1). This data was converted from its categorical format, which has a ≈500 meter resolution, to a fractional product indicating the integer percentage (0-100) of the output … landcover landuse-landcover map oxford -
RCMAP Rangeland Component Timeseries (1985-2023), v06
'The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, … climate-change disturbance landsat-derived landuse-landcover nlcd rangeland -
RCMAP Rangeland Trends Year for Component Timeseries (1985-2023), v06
This collection includes RCMAP yearly products from 1985 through 2023. The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual … climate-change disturbance landsat-derived landuse-landcover nlcd rangeland -
RCMAP Rangeland Trends for Component Timeseries (1985-2023), v06
The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, … climate-change disturbance landsat-derived landuse-landcover nlcd rangeland -
SBTN Natural Lands Map v1
The SBTN Natural Lands Map v1 is a 2020 baseline map of natural and non-natural land covers intended for use by companies setting science-based targets for nature, specifically the SBTN Land target #1: no conversion of natural ecosystems. "Natural" and "non-natural" definitions were adapted from … ecosystems landcover landuse-landcover wri -
SBTN Natural Lands Map v1.1
The SBTN Natural Lands Map v1.1 is a 2020 baseline map of natural and non-natural land covers intended for use by companies setting science-based targets for nature, specifically the SBTN Land target #1: no conversion of natural ecosystems. "Natural" and "non-natural" definitions were adapted from … ecosystems landcover landuse-landcover wri -
TUBerlin/BigEarthNet/v1
BigEarthNet is a new large-scale Sentinel-2 benchmark archive, consisting of 590,326 Sentinel-2 image patches. To construct BigEarthNet, 125 Sentinel-2 tiles were acquired between June 2017 and May 2018 over the 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Kosovo, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland) of Europe. All … copernicus landuse-landcover sentinel -
USFS Landscape Change Monitoring System v2024.10 (CONUS and OCONUS)
This product is part of the Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) data suite. It shows LCMS-modeled change, land cover, and/or land use classes for each year and covers the Conterminous United States (CONUS) as well as areas outside the CONUS (OCONUS) including Alaska (AK), Puerto … change-detection forest gtac landcover landuse landuse-landcover -
USFS Tree Canopy Cover v2023-5 (CONUS and OCONUS)
This product is part of the Tree Canopy Cover (TCC) data suite. It includes modeled TCC, standard error (SE), and National Land Cover Database's (NLCD) TCC data for each year. TCC data produced by the the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS) are … forest gtac landuse-landcover redcastle-resources usda usfs -
VNP22Q2: Land Surface Phenology Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid
The Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) NASA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Land Cover Dynamics data product provides global land surface phenology (GLSP) metrics at yearly intervals. The VNP22Q2 data product is derived from time series of the two-band Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI2) … land landuse-landcover nasa ndvi noaa npp