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

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36

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

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

Author

ESA Land Cover CCI project team - author

Author

Unavailable - Defourny, Pierre ( author )

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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ESA Land Cover CCI project team - point_of_contact

Publisher

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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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.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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OnLine resource: Land Cover CCI Product viewer and access
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OnLine resource: 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
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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

File identifier: 7e139108035142a9a1ddd96abcdfff36 XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Parent identifier: ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land Cover CCI) Dataset Collection c19b0914521144ab8c18c91d586c6847

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-08-02T02:06:50

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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