Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers: CGLS-LC100 Collection 3

COPERNICUS/Landcover/100m/Proba-V-C3/Global
Dataset Availability
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z–2019-12-31T23:59:59Z
Dataset Provider
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ee.ImageCollection("COPERNICUS/Landcover/100m/Proba-V-C3/Global")

Description

The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is earmarked as a component of the Land service to operate a multi-purpose service component that provides a series of bio-geophysical products on the status and evolution of land surface at global scale.

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 al years. It is planned to provide yearly updates from 2020 through the use of a Sentinel time-series.

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Bands

Resolution
100 meters

Bands

Name Units Min Max Description
discrete_classification 0 200

Land cover classification
discrete_classification-proba % 0 100

Quality indicator (classification probability) of the discrete classification
forest_type 0 5

Forest type for all pixels with tree percentage vegetation cover bigger than 1 %
bare-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for bare-sparse-vegetation land cover class
crops-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for cropland land cover class
grass-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for herbaceous vegetation land cover class
moss-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for moss and lichen land cover class
shrub-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for shrubland land cover class
tree-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent vegetation cover for forest land cover class
snow-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent ground cover for snow and ice land cover class
urban-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent ground cover for built-up land cover class
water-permanent-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent ground cover for permanent water land cover class
water-seasonal-coverfraction % 0 100

Percent ground cover for seasonal water land cover class
data-density-indicator 0 100

Data density indicator for algorithm input data
change-confidence 0 3

This layer is only provided for years after the BaseYear 2015.

  • 0 - No change. No change in discrete class between year and previous year detected.
  • 1 - Potential change. BFASTmon detected break in second half of NRT year - potential change.
  • 2 - Medium confidence. Imprint of urban, permanent water, snow or wetland OR change detected by BFAST but HMM model didn't confirm this break in higher resolution OR change detected by BFASTmon in the first half of NRT year.
  • 3 - High confidence. BFAST detected a change and HMM confirmed this change in higher resolution.

discrete_classification Class Table

Value Color Description
0 #282828 Unknown. No or not enough satellite data available.
20 #ffbb22 Shrubs. Woody perennial plants with persistent and woody stems and without any defined main stem being less than 5 m tall. The shrub foliage can be either evergreen or deciduous.
30 #ffff4c Herbaceous vegetation. Plants without persistent stem or shoots above ground and lacking definite firm structure. Tree and shrub cover is less than 10 %.
40 #f096ff Cultivated and managed vegetation / agriculture. Lands covered with temporary crops followed by harvest and a bare soil period (e.g., single and multiple cropping systems). Note that perennial woody crops will be classified as the appropriate forest or shrub land cover type.
50 #fa0000 Urban / built up. Land covered by buildings and other man-made structures.
60 #b4b4b4 Bare / sparse vegetation. Lands with exposed soil, sand, or rocks and never has more than 10 % vegetated cover during any time of the year.
70 #f0f0f0 Snow and ice. Lands under snow or ice cover throughout the year.
80 #0032c8 Permanent water bodies. Lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Can be either fresh or salt-water bodies.
90 #0096a0 Herbaceous wetland. Lands with a permanent mixture of water and herbaceous or woody vegetation. The vegetation can be present in either salt, brackish, or fresh water.
100 #fae6a0 Moss and lichen.
111 #58481f Closed forest, evergreen needle leaf. Tree canopy >70 %, almost all needle leaf trees remain green all year. Canopy is never without green foliage.
112 #009900 Closed forest, evergreen broad leaf. Tree canopy >70 %, almost all broadleaf trees remain green year round. Canopy is never without green foliage.
113 #70663e Closed forest, deciduous needle leaf. Tree canopy >70 %, consists of seasonal needle leaf tree communities with an annual cycle of leaf-on and leaf-off periods.
114 #00cc00 Closed forest, deciduous broad leaf. Tree canopy >70 %, consists of seasonal broadleaf tree communities with an annual cycle of leaf-on and leaf-off periods.
115 #4e751f Closed forest, mixed.
116 #007800 Closed forest, not matching any of the other definitions.
121 #666000 Open forest, evergreen needle leaf. Top layer- trees 15-70 % and second layer- mixed of shrubs and grassland, almost all needle leaf trees remain green all year. Canopy is never without green foliage.
122 #8db400 Open forest, evergreen broad leaf. Top layer- trees 15-70 % and second layer- mixed of shrubs and grassland, almost all broadleaf trees remain green year round. Canopy is never without green foliage.
123 #8d7400 Open forest, deciduous needle leaf. Top layer- trees 15-70 % and second layer- mixed of shrubs and grassland, consists of seasonal needle leaf tree communities with an annual cycle of leaf-on and leaf-off periods.
124 #a0dc00 Open forest, deciduous broad leaf. Top layer- trees 15-70 % and second layer- mixed of shrubs and grassland, consists of seasonal broadleaf tree communities with an annual cycle of leaf-on and leaf-off periods.
125 #929900 Open forest, mixed.
126 #648c00 Open forest, not matching any of the other definitions.
200 #000080 Oceans, seas. Can be either fresh or salt-water bodies.

forest_type Class Table

Value Color Description
0 #282828 Unknown
1 #666000 Evergreen needle leaf
2 #009900 Evergreen broad leaf
3 #70663e Deciduous needle leaf
4 #a0dc00 Deciduous broad leaf
5 #929900 Mix of forest types

Image Properties

Image Properties

Name Type Description
discrete_classification_class_names STRING_LIST

Land cover class names
discrete_classification_class_palette STRING_LIST

Land cover class palette
discrete_classification_class_values INT_LIST

Value of the land cover classification.
forest_type_class_names STRING_LIST

forest cover class names
forest_type_class_palette STRING_LIST

forest cover class palette
forest_type_class_values INT_LIST

forest cover class values

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

As official product of the global component of the Copernicus Land Service, access to this land cover dataset is fully free and open to all users.

Citations

Citations:

  • Buchhorn, M. ; Lesiv, M. ; Tsendbazar, N. - E. ; Herold, M. ; Bertels, L. ; Smets, B. Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers-Collection 2. Remote Sensing 2020, 12Volume 108, 1044. doi:10.3390/rs12061044

  • Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Bertels, L., Roo, B. D., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Herold, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2017: Globe (Version V3.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

  • Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Bertels, L., Roo, B. D., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Herold, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2018: Globe (Version V3.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

  • Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Bertels, L., Roo, B. D., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Herold, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2015: Globe (Version V3.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

  • Buchhorn, M., Smets, B., Bertels, L., Roo, B. D., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Herold, M., & Fritz, S. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: collection 3: epoch 2019: Globe (Version V3.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/Landcover/100m/Proba-V-C3/Global/2019')
.select('discrete_classification');

Map.setCenter(-88.6, 26.4, 1);

Map.addLayer(dataset, {}, 'Land Cover');

Python setup

See the Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using geemap for interactive development.

import ee
import geemap.core as geemap

Colab (Python)

dataset = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/Landcover/100m/Proba-V-C3/Global/2019').select(
    'discrete_classification'
)

m = geemap.Map()
m.set_center(-88.6, 26.4, 1)
m.add_layer(dataset, {}, 'Land Cover')
m
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The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is earmarked as a component of the Land service to operate a multi-purpose service component that provides a series of bio-geophysical products on the status and evolution of land surface at global scale. The Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution (CGLS-LC100) is …
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2015-01-01T00:00:00Z/2019-12-31T23:59:59Z
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