EEA geospatial data catalogue
Land Cover 2020 (raster 100 m), global, annual - version 1
This product is delivered by the Copernicus Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest Mapping and Monitoring service (LCFM), part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), and provides global land cover data at 100-meter resolution for the year 2020.
This product is a continuation of the Global Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m spatial resolution available for the years 2015–2019, but it uses different input data (Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 instead of Proba-V) and a different classification algorithm.
The LCM-100 comprises three layers:
- Map layer - The core product providing a discrete classification map at 100m resolution. It denotes the dominant land cover class for each pixel across 12 primary classes as defined using the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). These classes include Open and Closed tree cover, Shrubland, Grassland, Cropland, Built-up, Bare/sparse vegetation, Snow and ice, Permanent water bodies, Herbaceous wetland, Mangroves, and Moss and lichen.
- Cover fraction layer - this layer provides Land Cover Fractions at 100m resolution for each class, scaled between 0 and 1.
- Change layer - a layer that qualifies the confidence of change vs. previous year. For this version of the product, the layer is available, but does not contain data.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-05-07
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-06-23
- Edition
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01.00
- Edition date
- 2019-05-14T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- clms_r_4326_100_m_lcfm-lcm-global_p_2020_v01_r00
- Title
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VITO NV
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-01-01
Identifier
- Other citation details
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https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/global-dynamic-land-cover
- Purpose
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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
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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
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Custodian Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.000833333333333 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#deg
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 100 m
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Biota
- Environment
- Farming
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- year composite base_year 2020-01-01 2020-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- mmi:updateScope
- Series
Resource format
- Title
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GeoTIFF
- Alternate title
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Extension of Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 for georeferenced or geocoded raster imagery
- Date
- Edition
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1.0
- Theme
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land cover
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LC
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- Place
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Globe
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- Temporal
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Year
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- Copernicus Themes
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Vegetation
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- Copernicus Variables
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Dynamic Land Cover
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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
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GeoTIFF
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- Units of distribution
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Per product
- OnLine resource
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Copernicus Browser
The Copernicus Browser makes it possible to browse and download full resolution images from all Copernicus missions.
- OnLine resource
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EODATA
https://cloudferro.com/data-tools/eo-data-catalogue/
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Validation results
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-04-27
- Explanation
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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This product is developed within the Copernicus Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest Mapping and Monitoring service (LCFM), which is part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS). This product is derived from the probability layer of the LCM-10 product. The probabilities are first aggregated to 100m resolution, converted to cover fractions and based on the cover fractions the LCM-100 class is determined. The decision tree for the class is the same as for the Global Dynamic Land Cover product, except for the addition of Mangroves.
The LCM-10 product is mainly based on data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites, a global training dataset, and several auxiliary layers. The product is generated based on a deep learning algorithm. Auxiliary datasets integrated in the processing include the Copernicus Digital Elevation Model (providing elevation), OpenStreetMap data (especially for roads) and AgERA5 meteorological data. For more detailed information, please refer to the LCM-10 product documentation.
- 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
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Upperleft corner tiepoint
- Description
- Upperleft corner tiepoint
- Identifier
- upperLeftTiePoint
- Name
- Tie Point in upper left corner
- Pixel orientation code
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Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4326
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- d57ebd3d-7279-4049-baac-f3024a56a2fe
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-05-07T10:13:54.385251Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:16:55.372252Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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