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

Latest Data Update: 2016-03-09
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-06-15
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 21 Files | 15GB
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Abstract

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

Citable as:  ESA Land Cover CCI project team; Defourny, P. (2016): ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Global Land Cover Maps, Version 1.6.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Land Cover, CCI

Details

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Previously used record identifiers:
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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/esacci_landcover_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

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
File Format:
Data are available in NetCDF and GeoTiff format

Related Documents

 Land Cover CCI Product viewer and access
 Global Land Cover Maps Quick User Guide
 Product User Guide
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Land Cover project website

Process overview

  • long_name: LC map processed area flag
  • standard_name: land_cover_lccs status_flag
  • var_id: processed_flag
  • standard_name: land_cover_lccs status_flag
  • long_name: LC pixel type mask
  • var_id: current_pixel_state
  • standard_name: land_cover_lccs
  • long_name: Land cover class defined in LCCS
  • var_id: lccs_class
  • var_id: crs
  • long_name: number of valid observations
  • standard_name: land_cover_lccs number_of_observations
  • var_id: observation_count

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1998-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2012-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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