ESA 2021 World Cover

The ESA WorldCover Team is proud to announce the release of the WorldCover 2021 product at 10m resolution.

Inspired by the 2017 WorldCover conference organized by ESA, the cardinal requirements are:

fast generation and validation of a world land cover based on Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations 10 land cover classes + mangroves 10m resolution 10 months from last data take 77% overall accuracy, independently validated The WorldCover products are delivered in a regular latitude/longitude grid (EPSG:4326) with the ellipsoid WGS 1984 (Terrestrial radius=6378 km). The legend includes 11 generic classes that appropriately describe the land surface at 10m: "Tree cover", "Shrubland", "Grassland", "Cropland", "Built-up", "Bare / sparse vegetation”, “Snow and Ice”, “Permanent water bodies”, “Herbaceous Wetland”, “Mangrove” and “Moss and lichen".

Data from the Global Land Service is subjected to the free and open access policy from the European Union’s Copernicus Regulation (see here: https://www.copernicus.eu/en/how/how-access-data). Please make sure to use a proper attribution when using these CGLS-LC100 data, such as:

Source: Contains modified Copernicus Service information [2020]. This product was generated by the Global Land Service of Copernicus. It is based on PROBA-V data by ESA and distributed by VITO.

For a complete acknowledgement and credit, the following statement can be used:

"The product was generated by the Global component of the Land Service of Copernicus, the Earth Observation programme of the European Commission. The research leading to the current version of the product has received funding from various European Commission Research and Technical Development programs. The product is based on PROBA-V data provided by Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and distributed by VITO."