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UID 655
Name Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) Land Cover
Note The CGLS delivers a yearly dynamic global Land Cover product at 100 m spatial resolution which provides a primary land cover scheme at three levels according to the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) scheme. Next to these discrete classes, the product also includes continuous field layers or “fraction maps” for all basic land cover classes that provide proportional estimates for vegetation/ground cover for the land cover types. The current available version of the CGLS Land Cover is version 3.0 provided for the 2019 reference year over the entire globe, mapped with high temporal stability across years and an overall mapping accuracy of 80.3%. The products in version 3.0 are provided as GeoTIFF files per 20 x 20 degree tile and mapping period and layer. More information about Access, Algorithm, Technical characteristics and documents are available at https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/lc. The layers are downloaded at https://lcviewer.vito.be/download.
Update Frequency Periodic Update
Area Global
Temporal 01 Jan. 2015 -
Timeliness < 1 hr
Data Policy Full and Open
Data type Image
Copernicus service product
Data format Raster dataset
Quality Control Procedure N/A
Dissemination View and Download Service
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Annex II: Land cover

Geographical Coverage

Multiple Countries /Not a specific country

Status -
State Ready
Created on April 26, 2021, 2:46 p.m.
Last modified on April 19, 2024, 10:35 a.m.

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