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ESA unveils latest map of world’s land cover
 
21 December 2010

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ESA’s 2009 global land cover map
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ESA’s 2009 global land cover map was generated using 12 months worth of data, collected from 1 January-31 December 2009, from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can be created within a year.

The map’s legend uses the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Land Cover Classification System.

Credits: ESA 2010 and Université Catholique de Louvain

 
 
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