Land Cover Focus Area Products
Land Cover Products - Single-class legend
| Global urban extent, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: GHSL contact | Temporal Coverage: 1975 - 2030 |
| Institution: JRC | Spatial Scale: 10 m, 100 m, 1 km |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: 5-year epochs |
| Global Surface Water Dynamics, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Amy Pickens | Temporal Coverage: 1999 - 2021 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual, monthly |
| Global Cropland extent and change, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Peter Potapov | Temporal Coverage: 2003 - 2019 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: 4-year epochs |
| Global forest cover change, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Matt Hansen | Temporal Coverage: 2000 - 2022 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global surface water extent, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: JRCContact | Temporal Coverage: 1984 - 2021 |
| Institution: JRC | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual, seasonal |
| Global water bodies extent, derived from Envisat-ASAR | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: ESA CCI LC project | Temporal Coverage: 2005 - 2015 |
| Institution: ESA | Spatial Scale: 150 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: decadal |
| Global cropland extent, derived from Landsat, MODIS, AVHRR | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: GFSAD project | Temporal Coverage: 2015 |
| Institution: USGS | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global urban extent, derived from TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Thomas Esch; GUF team | Temporal Coverage: 2011 - 2012 |
| Institution: DLR | Spatial Scale: 12 m, 84 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global urban extent, derived from MODIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Annemarie Schneider | Temporal Coverage: 2001 - 2002 |
| Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison | Spatial Scale: 500 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global mangrove distribution, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Chandra Giri | Temporal Coverage: 1997 - 2000 |
| Institution: USGS (distributed by UNEP) | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
Land Cover Products - Generalized global legend
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Sentinel-2 | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Christopher F. Brown | Temporal Coverage: 2017-present |
| Institution: Google | Spatial Scale: 10 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: near real-time |
| Surface Type, derived from VIIRS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Xiwu Zhan | Temporal Coverage: 2012 - 2022 |
| Institution: NOAA | Spatial Scale: 1 km | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: WorldCover project | Temporal Coverage: 2020, 2021 |
| Institution: ESA | Spatial Scale: 10 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from AVHRR, SPOT-VGT, MERIS, PROBA-V | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Copernicus C3S support | Temporal Coverage: 2016 - 2020 |
| Institution: EU Copernicus Climate Change Service | Spatial Scale: 300 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from PROBA-V | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Copernicus Global Land Service support | Temporal Coverage: 2015 - 2019 |
| Institution: EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service | Spatial Scale: 100 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover and Land Use, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Matt Hansen | Temporal Coverage: 2019 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from AVHRR, SPOT-VGT and MERIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: ESA CCI LC project | Temporal Coverage: 1992 - 2020 |
| Institution: ESA | Spatial Scale: 300 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Liangyun Liu | Temporal Coverage: 2015 |
| Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Sentinel-2 | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Impact Observatory | Temporal Coverage: 2017-2022 |
| Institution: ESRI | Spatial Scale: 10 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from MODIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Mark Friedl | Temporal Coverage: 2001 - 2022 |
| Institution: NASA/Boston University | Spatial Scale: 500 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from MODIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Mark Friedl | Temporal Coverage: 2001- 2022 |
| Institution: NASA/Boston University | Spatial Scale: 0.05 deg |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Pan-European Land Cover Type, derived from SPOT HR and Landsat | Spatial Coverage: pan-European |
| Contact: Helpdesk | Temporal Coverage: 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018 |
| Institution: EU Land Copernicus | Spatial Scale: 25 ha |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from MERIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Pierre Defourny | Temporal Coverage: 2005, 2006, 2009 |
| Institution: ESA | Spatial Scale: 300 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Sentinel-2 | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Peng Gong | Temporal Coverage: 2017 |
| Institution: Tsinghua University | Spatial Scale: 10 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Peng Gong | Temporal Coverage: 2010, 2015, 2017 |
| Institution: Tsinghua University | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from MODIS | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Ryutaro Tateishi | Temporal Coverage: 2003, 2008, 2013 |
| Institution: CEReS and Chiba University | Spatial Scale: 1 km |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from SPOT-VGT | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Hans-Juergen Stibig | Temporal Coverage: 1999 - 2000 |
| Institution: JRC | Spatial Scale: 1 km |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from AVHRR | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Matt Hansen | Temporal Coverage: 1992 - 1993 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 1 km, 8 km, 1 deg | Temporal Scale: annual |
| Global Land Cover Type, derived from AVHRR | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Userservices | Temporal Coverage: 1992 - 1993 |
| Institution: IGBP | Spatial Scale: 1 km | Temporal Scale: annual |
Land Cover Change
| Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, derived from Landsat | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Peter Potapov | Temporal Coverage: 2000 - 2020 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 30 m |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: 5 years |
| Long Term Global Land Change, derived from AVHRR | Spatial Coverage: global |
| Contact: Xiao-Peng Song | Temporal Coverage: 1982 - 2016 |
| Institution: University of Maryland | Spatial Scale: 0.05 deg |
| Link to validation information | Temporal Scale: annual |
