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

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c

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

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Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

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

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pointofContact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact

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

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Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned Not planned

Update scope: dataset Dataset

Keywords

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: 1992-01-01T00:00:00

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Data are netCDF and geotiff formatted. ()

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: Sample Image
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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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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: Product User Guide
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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: b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c 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: 2025-11-15T03:16:58

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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