Forest cover: areas where forest cover is above 30%. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (30%) were given a value of 1 (YES response)
The Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution (CGLS-LC100) is a new product in the portfolio of the CGLS and delivers a global land cover map at 100 m spatial resolution. The CGLS Land Cover product provides a primary land cover scheme. Next to these discrete classes, the product also includes continuous field layers for all basic land cover classes that provide proportional estimates for vegetation/ground cover for the land cover types. This continuous classification scheme may depict areas of heterogeneous land cover better than the standard classification scheme and, as such, can be tailored for application use (e.g. forest monitoring, crop monitoring, biodiversity and conservation, monitoring environment and security in Africa, climate modelling, etc.). These consistent Land Cover maps (v3.0.1) are provided for the period 2015-2019 over the entire Globe, derived from the PROBA-V 100 m time-series, a database of high quality land cover training sites and several ancillary datasets, reaching an accuracy of 80% at Level1 over all years. It is planned to provide yearly updates from 2020 through the use of a Sentinel time-series.
Data revision: 2021-12-14
Contact points:
Contact: Marcel Buchhorn Remote Sensing Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Metadata contact: OCB Environment FAO-UN
Resource constraints:
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The dataset contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2005-2019];
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Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.
More information on Copernicus License in PDF version at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf
Online resources:
Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers