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Requirement details

Name Land Cover / Land Use, 100+ m resolution
Note Land use including: forest cover fraction Needed for calibration and validation of global datasets
Dissemination View and Download Service
Quality Control Procedure N/A
Group Land cover / Land use
Status -
Uncertainty
-
-
-
Update Frequency
3 years
2 years
1 year
Timeliness
1 month
1 week
1 day
Scale
Horizontal resolution
1000 m
100 m
50 m
Vertical resolution
N/A
N/A
N/A
Essential variables

Land - Biosphere - Land cover
State Ready
Created on Oct. 9, 2018, 3:24 p.m.
Last updated on Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.

Products

Product Level of definition Relevant for Criticality Barriers Note Created on Last updated on
Hourly LST from instantaneous observations [5 Km] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Coverage Oct. 9, 2018, 11:33 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Surface Albedo [1 Km] Speculative Product generation Desirable Accuracy, Availability Oct. 9, 2018, 11:35 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Top of Canopy Reflectances [1 Km] Speculative Product generation Desirable Accuracy, Availability Oct. 9, 2018, 11:37 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
10-day Land Surface Temperature with Daily Cycle [5 Km] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Coverage Oct. 9, 2018, 11:32 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Snow Cover Extent [500 m] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Timeliness Oct. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Snow Water Equivalent [5 Km] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Timeliness Land use, and most importantly forest cover fraction, derived from ESA GlobCover 2009 300 m data (Bontemps et al. 2011). Oct. 14, 2018, 12:46 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Thermal Condidtion Index with a 10-day composite of Land Surface Temperature [5 Km] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Coverage Thermal Condition Index is generated alongside the 10-day LST product, so has the same requirements Oct. 31, 2018, 10:25 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.

Data

Data Level of compliance Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last updated on
ISLSCP II IGBP DISCover and SiB Land Cover Partially Coverage: Sparse network of ground measurements Oct. 9, 2018, 11:39 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
Global Land Cover 2000 Partially Timeliness: Historic dataset Oct. 9, 2018, 11:45 p.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:40 p.m.
GLOBECOVER Partially Timeliness: Historical landcover dataset Oct. 22, 2018, 12:43 a.m. Dec. 20, 2021, 1:41 p.m.