1a3e4d8a-fd88-46db-9b1e-124cd309740b Water Cover Duration 2016-present (raster 10 m) Copernicus Land Monitoring Service JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu https://land.copernicus.eu/ European Environment Agency Point of contact sdi@eea.europa.eu 2025-03-05 en This metadata covers the Water Cover Duration (WCD) product which is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Water Snow & Ice portfolio (HR-WSI), which are provided at high spatial resolution from the Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations data from September 1, 2016 onwards. The High Resolution Water Layer portfolio consists of the Water Layer (WL), the Water Presence Index (WPI), the Water confidence layer (WCL) and the Rolling archive (WLRA). The WCD is generated on a yearly basis, starting in 2017 (01.09 to 30.08 each year), and is published in October. It provides an estimated number of days during which the area was covered by water for each pixel within the entire EEA-38+UK region. The product is derived from data obtained from the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites, as well as from the Sentinel-2 Water and Ice Cover (WIC S2) product. The product has a spatial resolution of 10m x 10m and 100 m x 100 m, is delivered in LAEA and WGS84/UTM projection and is updated on an annual basis. This methodology results in a high-quality WCD information layer. The WCD product represents one of the two water products within the overall WSI product portfolio, which includes not only water but also snow and ice data. Land cover Hydrography GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 EEA38 (from 2020) United Kingdom Continents, countries, sea regions of the world Environmental policy Land cover Climate change impact Landscape alteration Water Ice Snow Monitoring GEMET European Spatial scope Water Environmental inequalities EEA topics The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. No limitations to public access http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Website (requires authentication) https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/water-bodies/high-resolution-water-cover-duration#download EEA geospatial data catalogue https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/39e1ff33-01d9-45c2-9edc-00924383f34f?language=all Europe -32.00 46.00 72.00 27.00 2016-09-01 2017-08-31 European Commission Owner https://commission.europa.eu/ Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Custodian JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu https://land.copernicus.eu/ European Environment Agency Publisher sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu/ Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk Point of contact JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu Input data are the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data as well as High Resolution Water Snow and Ice - Water/Ice cover products (WIC S2), generated during the period covered by the WCD product. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (2025).Water Cover Duration 2016-present (raster 10 m), Europe, annualy. European Environment Agency https://doi.org/10.2909/39e1ff33-01d9-45c2-9edc-00924383f34f.