ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Global Land Cover Maps, Version 2.0.7

As part of the ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project a new set of Global Land Cover Maps have been produced. These maps are available at 300m spatial resolution for each year between 1992 and 2015.

Each pixel value corresponds to the classification of a land cover class defined based on the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The reliability of the classifications made are documented by the four quality flags (decribed further in the Product User Guide) that accompany these maps. Data are provided in both NetCDF and GeoTiff format.

Further Land Cover CCI products, user tools and a product viewer are available at: http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php . Maps for the 2016-2020 time period have been produced in the context of the Copernicus Climate Change service, and can be downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS).

Date (Publication): 2019-11-29T15:39:55

Date (Creation): 2019-11-29T15:39:55

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c

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
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
ESA Land Cover CCI project team		unknown	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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: 1992-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2015-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are netCDF and geotiff formatted.

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/b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/land_cover/data/land_cover_maps/v2.0.7	DOWNLOAD

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
	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://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php	Land Cover CCI Product viewer and access

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/download/ESACCI-LC-QuickUserGuide-LC-Maps_v2-0-7.pdf	Global Land Cover Maps Quick User Guide

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: b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c 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: 2025-08-04T02:17:25

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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