ESA global land cover map available online


ESA’s global land cover map
 
ESA’s global land cover map was generated using 19 months worth of data, collected between January 2005 and June 2006, from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument. It is the highest resolution land cover map that has been completely validated ever released.

This map may be used freely with mandatory credits going to ESA/ESA GlobCover Project, led by MEDIAS France/Postel.

GlobCover legend
 
GlobCover legend

Global validation points
 
Global distribution of the reference land cover points used by experts to validate the GlobCover map.



Release date: 28 February 2012