Land Cover 2015-2019 (raster 100 m), global, yearly - version 3
The Global Dynamic Land Cover product offers annual global land cover maps and cover fraction layers, providing a detailed view of land cover at three classification levels. It uses modern data analysis techniques to ensure temporal consistency and accuracy, with the latest version achieving 80% accuracy at class level 1 on each continent. The product also includes continuous field layers, or "fraction maps", that provide proportional estimates for vegetation and ground cover for the land cover types. These features make it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications, including forest monitoring, rangeland management, crop monitoring, biodiversity conservation, climate modelling, and urban planning. Dynamic land cover maps include transitions of land cover classes over time and hence captures land cover changes. This Collection 3 includes the global land cover maps, at 100m resolution, for base year 2015 and subsequent years until 2019. These consist of different layers: the base classification with 23 classes, versatile fractional cover (0-100% per pixel) for the main classes, forest type and related quality information (e.g. classification probability, input data density and confidence level for the change detection.
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IdentificationAbout this resource
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fc4553f3-e66d-47a0-8ec7-6e0b93856af3
- Publication Date
- 2015-01-01
- Title
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Land Cover 2015-2019 (raster 100 m), global, yearly - version 3
- Short Name
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Land Cover 2015-2019
- Abstract
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The Global Dynamic Land Cover product offers annual global land cover maps and cover fraction layers, providing a detailed view of land cover at three classification levels. It uses modern data analysis techniques to ensure temporal consistency and accuracy, with the latest version achieving 80% accuracy at class level 1 on each continent. The product also includes continuous field layers, or "fraction maps", that provide proportional estimates for vegetation and ground cover for the land cover types. These features make it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications, including forest monitoring, rangeland management, crop monitoring, biodiversity conservation, climate modelling, and urban planning. Dynamic land cover maps include transitions of land cover classes over time and hence captures land cover changes. This Collection 3 includes the global land cover maps, at 100m resolution, for base year 2015 and subsequent years until 2019. These consist of different layers: the base classification with 23 classes, versatile fractional cover (0-100% per pixel) for the main classes, forest type and related quality information (e.g. classification probability, input data density and confidence level for the change detection.
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English
- Dataset Creator
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- Keywords (Copernicus Themes)
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Vegetation
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Dynamic Land Cover
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Land use
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Geophysical environment
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Orthoimagery
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Global
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Geographic Coverage
- Geographic Description
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Global
Bounding Box
- West Bounding Coordinate
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-180
- East Bounding Coordinate
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180
- North Bounding Coordinate
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78.25
- South Bounding Coordinate
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-60.00
Bounding Altitudes
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Temporal Coverage
Range of Dates
- Begin Date
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2015-01-01
- End Date
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2019-12-31
resourceLicensesLicense Information
- Intellectual Rights
Resource License
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The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.
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Distribution
Online
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Copernicus Browser
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Online
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S3 storage (EODATA)
Distribution
Online
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OData API
Project
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Land Cover 2015-2019 (raster 100 m), global, yearly - version 3
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Land Cover products were generated by the Global component of the Land Service of Copernicus, the Earth Observation programme of the European Commission. The research leading to the current version of the product has received funding from various European Commission Research and Technical Development programs. The product is based on PROBA-V 100m and 333m data (copyright BELSPO and distribution by VITO NV), as well as renowned external datasets (e.g. World Settlement Footprint by DLR, Global Surface Water by the EC Joint Research Centre, OpenStreetMap).
Personnel
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Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
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Point of contact
Methods
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The products are delivered in a regular latitude/longitude grid (EPSG:4326) with the ellipsoid WGS 1984 (Terrestrial radius=6378 km). The resolution of the grid is 1°/1008 or approximately 100m at equator; They cover the global land surface area included in the latitude range fromn78.25°N to 60°S. The version 3.0 annual 100m land cover classes were mapped with high temporal stability across years and an overall mapping accuracy just over 80% (80.6% in 2015, 80.3% in 2019), when compared to the 28K independent validation points. The statistical validation meets the CEOS Land Product Validation Stage 4 requirements.
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Software
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3.0
Data Tables
• Data Table
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PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.1.2_2015_cog
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GeoTIFF
• Data Table
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PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.1.2_2016_cog
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GeoTIFF
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PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.1.2_2017_cog
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GeoTIFF
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PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.1.2_2018_cog
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GeoTIFF
• Data Table
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PROBAV_LC100_global_v3.1.2_2019_cog
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GeoTIFF
