Land Cover 2015-2019 (raster 100 m), global, annual - version 3

English

The Global Dynamic Land Cover product offers annual global land cover maps and cover fraction layers, providing a detailed view of land cover at three classification levels. It uses modern data analysis techniques to ensure temporal consistency and accuracy, with the latest version achieving 80% accuracy at class level 1 on each continent. The product also includes continuous field layers, or "fraction maps", that provide proportional estimates for vegetation and ground cover for the land cover types. These features make it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications, including forest monitoring, rangeland management, crop monitoring, biodiversity conservation, climate modelling, and urban planning.

Dynamic land cover maps include transitions of land cover classes over time and hence captures land cover changes.

This Collection 3 includes the global land cover maps, at 100m resolution, for base year 2015 and subsequent years until 2019. These consist of different layers: the base classification with 23 classes, versatile fractional cover (0-100% per pixel) for the main classes, forest type and related quality information (e.g. classification probability, input data density and confidence level for the change detection).

Identification info

Date (Creation): 2015-01-01

Date (Publication): 2015-01-01

Edition: 3.0

Edition date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00

Citation identifier: clms_r_4326_100_m_lcc-yearly-global_p_2015-2020_v3_r00

Citation identifier

clms_global_lcc_100m_v3_yearly

Title: VITO NV

Date (Revision): 2020-01-01

Identifier

Code: 10.2909/c6377c6e-76cc-4d03-8330-628a03693042

Other citation details: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/global-dynamic-land-cover

Purpose: This product is first designed to fit the requirements of the Global component of the Copernicus Land Service. It can be also useful for all applications related to the environment monitoring.

Credit: Land Cover products were generated by the Global component of the Land Service of Copernicus, the Earth Observation programme of the European Commission. The research leading to the current version of the product has received funding from various European Commission Research and Technical Development programs. The product is based on PROBA-V 100m and 333m data (copyright BELSPO and distribution by VITO NV), as well as renowned external datasets (e.g. World Settlement Footprint by DLR, Global Surface Water by the EC Joint Research Centre, OpenStreetMap).

Point of contact

Organisation	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Commission		https://commission.europa.eu	Owner
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service	JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu	Custodian
European Commission's Joint Research Centre		https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/	Publisher
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk	JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk	Point of contact

Spatial representation type: Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution: 0.000992063492063 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#deg

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover
Biota
Environment
Farming

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: year composite base_year 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z 2019-12-31T23:59:59Z

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

mmi:updateScope: Series

Resource format

Title: GeoTIFF

Alternate title: Extension of Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 for georeferenced or geocoded raster imagery

Date

Edition: 1.0

EEA topics

Land use

Spatial scope

Global

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

World

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Orthoimagery

GEMET

geophysical environment

Theme

land cover
LC

Place

Globe

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Year

Copernicus Themes

Vegetation

Copernicus Variables

Dynamic Land Cover

Resource constraints

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.

Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:

1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.

2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.

3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

GeoTIFF

Fees: Free

Ordering instructions: Products can be viewed, downloaded and analyzed online, with free and open access.

Units of distribution: Per product

OnLine resource

OnLine resource: OGC WMTS

OnLine resource: Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem download services

Units of distribution: Per product

OnLine resource: Copernicus Browser

Data quality info

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Report

Result

Title: Validation results

Date (Publication): 2021-04-27

Explanation: Overall accuracy just over 80% (80.6% in 2015, 80.3% in 2019) using a set of 21K independent validation points. More details can be found in the validation report at https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/global-dynamic-land-cover

Pass: true

Report

Result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: true

Report

Result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on orthoimagery - Guidelines

Date (Publication): 2010-04-26

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: true

Resource lineage

Statement

The land cover map is classified from daily surface reflectances of PROBA-V sensor and training data gathered through the GEO-WIKI. Several other products are integrated into the discrete map (LCCS layer) such as World Settlement Footprint (DLR), the Global Surface Water (JRC), OpenStreetMap, the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (NASA) and Circum-Polar Arctic Vegetation Map (U.S. CPAVM team).

The land cover is provided at 100 m resolution, however the training data is gathered at 10m resolution which has enabled to generate the continuous cover fields and provide per pixel a cover percentage (0-100%) for a set of classes.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Spatial representation info

Number of dimensions: 2

Dimension name: Row

Dimension size: 141120

Resolution: 0.000992063492063

Dimension name: Column

Dimension size: 362880

Resolution: 0.000992063492063

Cell geometry: Area

Transformation parameter availability: false

Check point availability: true

Check point description: Upperleft corner tiepoint

Description: Upperleft corner tiepoint

Identifier: upperLeftTiePoint

Name: Tie Point in upper left corner

Pixel orientation code

Reference System Information

Code: EPSG:4326

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Metadata

Metadata identifier: c6377c6e-76cc-4d03-8330-628a03693042

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Contact

Organisation	Individual	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service		JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu	Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type: Dataset

Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/c6377c6e-76cc-4d03-8330-628a03693042

Date info (Creation): 2024-12-17T06:50:36.638592Z

Date info (Revision): 2025-10-09T11:13:55.331468Z

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115/19139

Edition: 1.0

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