ESA Global WorldCover Map derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data at 10m resolution for 2020

The free available dataset by the European Space Agency (ESA) contains the global landcover, which is divided into eleven classes:

- Tree cover

- Shrubland

- Grassland

- Cropland

- Built-up

- Bare/sparse vegetation

- Snow and ice

- Permanent water bodies

- Herbaceous wetland

- Mangroves

- Moss and lichen.

The landcover was originally derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. There are 2651 tiles (3x3 degrees) at a spatial resolution of 10m, which can be downloaded as GeoTIFFs in the the EPSG:4326 projection (WGS84). For each tile there are two layers. One contains the land cover map and the other a three band GeoTIFF providing three per pixel quality indicators of the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 input data.

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Date ( Publication )
2021
Identifier
dataset
Publisher
European Space Agency (ESA) -

https://www.esa.int/
Other citation details
Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571936
Status
Completed
Point of contact
VITO Remote Sensing - ( )
VITO Remote Sensing Mol Boeretang 200 2400 Belgium

https://blog.vito.be/remotesensing
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • land cover
  • global
  • remote sensing
  • MOOD-H2020
  • radar
  • sentinel-1
  • sentinel-2
Keywords ( Place )
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
Use limitation
None
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

Creative Commons Namensnennung – 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

For more information see: https://worldcover2020.esa.int/download

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Aggregate Datasetindentifier
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571936
Association Type
Cross reference
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
10 meters
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Description
Global
Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2020-12-31
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource
https://esa-worldcover.org/en ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://worldcover2020.esa.int/downloader ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Other citation details
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement
derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data

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File identifier
94feeb96-0e3d-4aa9-95b9-028c65190d55 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2022-04-22T08:55:50
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

https://www.mundialis.de/en/

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(2021) . ESA Global WorldCover Map derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data at 10m resolution for 2020.
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/static/api/records/94feeb96-0e3d-4aa9-95b9-028c65190d55

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