All users of the GBOV products benefit from the free and open access policy as defined in the European Union’s Copernicus regulation (N° 377/2014 of 3 April 2014) and Commission Delegated Regulation (N° 1159/2013), available on the Copernicus programme’s web site. The policy includes lawful use reproduction, distribution, communication to the public, adaptation, modification and combination with other data and information or any combination thereof. Access and use can only be limited in rare cases of security concerns, protection of Third Party risks or risks of service disruption.

By using the products, you acknowledge that these conditions apply and renounce to any claims for damages against the European Union and the GBOV service providers.

Whenever you use the original or modified products or communicate them to the public, you are required to refer to the data source through (at least) the following statement:

"This study has been undertaken using [data/information] from GBOV “Ground Based Observation for Validation” ( https://land.copernicus.eu/global/gbov) founded by European Commission Joint Research Centre FWC932059, part of the Global Component of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service."

The generation of GBOV products was possible thanks to data provided by Third Party ground stations’ networks. These data represents years of effort and investment from scientific teams going to the fields, maintaining ground observation stations, ensuring the quality of the data to provide valuable and crucial ground information. For this reason, you are required to acknowledge originating PIs in any public document as follow:

"We thank [list of PIs*] and the [list of networks*] networks for the measurements collected in the field and used to generate GBOV products."

(*) PI list and associated networks are available in the metadata file associated to every single GBOV product. For any question please contact the CLMS service desk at https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk.

By agreeing with this data policy, you accept that your personal details (name, surname, e-mail and institution) are used to track download history and provide Copernicus and data provider with data usage statistics. These statistics will support service evolution and support data providers effort to maintain their valuable activities.