ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Water Bodies Map, v4.0

As part of the ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project a static map of open water bodies at 150 m spatial resolution at the equator has been produced.

The CCI WB v4.0 is composed of two layers:

1. A static map of open water bodies at 150 m spatial resolution resulting from a compilation and editions of land/water classifications: the Envisat ASAR water bodies indicator, a sub-dataset from the Global Forest Change 2000 - 2012 and the Global Inland Water product.

This product is delivered at 150 m as a stand-alone product but it is consistent with class "Water Bodies" of the annual MRLC (Medium Resolution Land Cover) Maps. The product was resampled to 300 m using an average algorithm. Legend : 1-Land, 2-Water

2. A static map with the distinction between ocean and inland water is now available at 150 m spatial resolution. It is fully consistent with the CCI WB-Map v4.0. Legend: 0-Ocean, 1-Land.

To cite the CCI WB-Map v4.0, please refer to : Lamarche, C.; Santoro, M.; Bontemps, S.; D’Andrimont, R.; Radoux, J.; Giustarini, L.; Brockmann, C.; Wevers, J.; Defourny, P.; Arino, O. Compilation and Validation of SAR and Optical Data Products for a Complete and Global Map of Inland/Ocean Water Tailored to the Climate Modeling Community. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9010036

Date (Publication): 2016-03-31T14:54:47

Date (Creation): 2016-03-31T14:54:47

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36

Citation identifier: alternative.identifier / esacci.LC.13-yrs.L4.WB.asar.Envisat.Map.4-0.r1.v20170120

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
ESA Land Cover CCI project team		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Defourny, Pierre	Unavailable	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: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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

Begin date: 2000-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2012-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data is in GTiff and NetCDF format. It has a LAT/LON WGS84 projection.

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/7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/data/water_bodies/v4.0	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
	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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/metadata/sample_images/Land-cover-water-bodies.png	Sample Image

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9010036	Lamarche, C.; Santoro, M.; Bontemps, S.; D’Andrimont, R.; Radoux, J.; Giustarini, L.; Brockmann, C.; Wevers, J.; Defourny, P.; Arino, O. Compilation and Validation of SAR and Optical Data Products for a Complete and Global Map of Inland/Ocean Water Tailored to the Climate Modeling Community. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9010036

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/media/documents/CCI_Land_Cover_PUG_v2.0.pdf	Product User Guide

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: 7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36 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: 2026-02-15T03:07:11

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	Point of contact

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