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Name Dynamic Land Cover
Acronym
Description Land cover maps represent spatial information on different types (classes) of physical coverage of the Earth's surface, e.g. forests, grasslands, croplands, lakes, wetlands. Dynamic land cover maps include transitions of land cover classes over time and hence captures land cover changes. Land use maps contain spatial information on the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to produce, change or maintain it. The yearly moderate-resolution land cover maps do primarily target land cover detection and their changes, although it's not so straightforward to put boundaries between definitions of land cover and land use classes. The map is provided together with vegetation continuous field layers that provide proportional estimates of vegetation cover for several land cover types.
Note
Status Operational
Group GLC Vegetation
Area Continental
Component Land Cover and Land Use Mapping
Service Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Entrusted Entities European Environment Agency Joint Research Centre
Created on Nov. 6, 2017, 1:53 p.m.
Last updated on April 8, 2024, 11:43 a.m.

Requirements

UID Requirement Level of definition Relevant for Criticality Barriers Note Created on Last updated on
188 Vegetation Ground Measurements Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential
Accuracy
Availability
Coverage
 May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
206 Land Cover - Inland Water Bodies & Wetland Fraction Reasonable Product generation Essential
Accuracy
 May 31, 2018, 4:08 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:42 p.m.
205 Land-Sea Mask Reasonable Product generation Essential
Accuracy
 May 30, 2018, 5:33 p.m. Feb. 1, 2023, 12:15 p.m.
202 Surface Meteorology (Forecast) Reasonable Product generation Essential
Resolution
 Includes: Total Column of Water Vapour (TCWV); Aerosol optical thickness climatology; Ozone content; Surface temperature April 5, 2020, 4:59 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:41 p.m.
186 Ecofloristic Zones (Global) Reasonable Product generation Essential
Accuracy
 April 5, 2020, 5:05 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:39 p.m.
486 Urban Mask Reasonable Product generation Desirable
Accuracy
Update Frequency
 input for product generation and validation June 11, 2021, 1:52 p.m. Nov. 5, 2021, 12:05 p.m.
273 Glaciers, 100+ m resolution Reasonable Product generation Essential
Accuracy
Update Frequency
 Permanent snow and ice detection April 5, 2020, 5:03 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:41 p.m.
485 Land Cover Reasonable Product generation Desirable
Coverage
Resolution
Update Frequency
 Land cover data as input for the generation of various masks as inclusion/exlusion layers to improve and validate classification June 11, 2021, 1:09 p.m. Sept. 16, 2021, 12:35 p.m.
185 Digital Elevation Model (global) Speculative Product generation Desirable
Accuracy
 May 30, 2018, 5:12 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:42 p.m.