ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Global Land Cover Maps, Version 1.6.1

As part of the ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project a set of Global Land Cover Maps have been produced. These are available at 300m spatial resolution for three epochs centred on the year 2010 (2008-2012), 2005 (2003-2007) and 2000 (1998-2002), where each epoch covers a 5-year period.



Each pixel value corresponds to the label of a land cover class defined using UN-LCCS classifiers. For each epoch, the land cover map is delivered along with 4 quality flags which document the reliability of the classification. These are described further in the Product User Guides.



Further Land Cover CCI products, user tools and a product viewer are available at: http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php

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Date (Publication)
2016-06-15T11:00:45
Date (Creation)
2016-06-15T11:00:45
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0
Citation identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0
Citation identifier
alternative.identifier / esacci.LC.5-yrs.L4.LCCS.multi-sensor.multi-platform.Map.1-6-1.r1.v20170120
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ESA Land Cover CCI project team

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 		Author

Unavailable

Defourny, Pierre

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 		Author

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor

ESA Land Cover CCI project team

unknown

 		pointofContact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Update scope
Dataset
Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_landcover_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Language
English
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1998-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2012-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Data are available in NetCDF and GeoTiff format
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/data/land_cover_maps/v1.6.1

DOWNLOAD
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php

Land Cover CCI Product viewer and access
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/docs/ESACCI-LC-QuickUserGuide-LC-Maps_v1-6-1.pdf

Global Land Cover Maps Quick User Guide
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/metadata/sample_images/Land-cover-map-2010.png

Sample Image
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/docs/ESACCI-LC-PUG-v2.5.pdf

Product User Guide
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/land-cover/

ESA CCI Land Cover project website
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance 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
Statement

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Land Cover project and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project

Metadata

File identifier
4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land Cover CCI) Dataset Collection

c19b0914521144ab8c18c91d586c6847
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-04T03:07:06
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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