Land Cover - ESRI 2020

Parameter

Land Cover

11 classes



Represented classes

Trees

Shrubland

Grassland

Cropland

Built-up

Barren/sparse vegetation

Snow/ice

Open water

Herbaceous wetland

Mangroves

Moss and lichen

Description

The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover 10 m 2020 product provides a global land cover map for 2020 at 10 m resolution based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The WorldCover product comes with 11 land cover classes and has been generated in the framework of the ESA WorldCover project, part of the 5th Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5) of the European Space Agency.

European Space Agency (ESA)

Source data

European Space Agency (ESA)

WorldCover 10m - 2020

Land Cover Map

Description

WorldCover provides a new baseline global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2020 based on Sentinel-1 and 2 data that was developed and validated in almost near-real time and at the same time maximizes the impact and uptake for the end users.

A tremendous step forward towards the joint use of Sentinel satellite data for worldwide land cover mapping.

Spatial resolution

Global coverage

10 m spatial resolution

Temporal resolution

Period of observation:

2020