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UID	840
Name	High Resolution Layer - Herbaceous cover
Acronym	HER
Description	Provides at pan-European level in the spatial resolution of 10 m a basic land cover classification with two thematic classes (herbaceous / non-herbaceous) for the reference years 2017-2023. This layer includes both permanent and temporary grasslands (e.g. seeded grassland and fodder crops that might have been tilled within the reference year) if it was the dominant land cover in the respective reference year.
Note
Status	Operational
Group	PLC High Resolution Layers
Area	Europe
Component	Land Cover and Land Use Mapping
Service	Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Entrusted Entities	European Environment Agency Joint Research Centre
Created on	May 10, 2024, 12:36 p.m.
Last updated on	Dec. 2, 2025, 7:34 a.m.

UID	Requirement	Level of definition	Relevant for	Criticality	Barriers	Note	Created on	Last updated on
181	Land Cover - Grassland	Firm	Calibration and validation	Essential	Accuracy	Land cover reference data needed for calibration and validation	May 23, 2024, 8:37 a.m.	May 23, 2024, 8:37 a.m.
219	Orthoimagery - Very High Resolution - Up-to-date - Homogenous	Firm	Calibration and validation	Desirable	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	Used for complementing the data base for training and testing samples, for calibration and validation	May 23, 2024, 8:40 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:11 p.m.
35	Administrative Boundaries	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Costs	Used for data clipping	May 23, 2024, 8:28 a.m.	Dec. 4, 2025, 5:21 p.m.
223	Phenological observations	Reasonable	Calibration and validation	Desirable	Availability Coverage	Derivation of phenology information for selection of satellite scenes.	May 27, 2024, 1:36 p.m.	May 27, 2024, 1:36 p.m.