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

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

Date (Publication): 2016-06-15T11:00:45

Date (Creation): 2016-06-15T11:00:45

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0

Identifier: alternative.identifier / esacci.LC.5-yrs.L4.LCCS.multi-sensor.multi-platform.Map.1-6-1.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

pointofContact

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

Maintenance and update frequency: unknown Unknown

Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

Universite Catholique de Louvain
land cover
Level 4
5 years
Map
land cover classification system
Medium-Spectral Resolution, Imaging Spectrometer
VEGETATION
land cover classification system
land cover
5 years
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Envisat
SPOT-4
Level 4
Map
MERIS
VEGETATION
Land Cover
CCI

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

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

Use constraints: otherRestrictions 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 Grid

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

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Begin date: 1998-01-01T00:00:00

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Data are available in NetCDF and GeoTiff format ()

Distributor

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

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

01235446432

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource: DOWNLOAD
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OnLine resource: Land Cover CCI Product viewer and access
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OnLine resource: Global Land Cover Maps Quick User Guide
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OnLine resource: Sample Image
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OnLine resource: Product User Guide
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OnLine resource: ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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OnLine resource: ESA CCI Land Cover project website
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Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Conformance result

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: 4761751d7c844e228ec2f5fe11b2e3b0 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: 2025-11-15T03:06:42

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

Overviews

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