GlobCover: ESA service for global land cover from MERIS
Abstract
The Globcover initiative comprises the development and demonstration of a service that in first instance produces a global land cover map for year 2005/2006. Globcover uses MERIS fine resolution (300 m) mode data acquired between mid 2005 and mid 2006 and, for maximum user benefit, the thematic legend is compatible with the UN land cover classification system (LCCS). This new product updates and complements the other existing comparable global products, such as the global land cover map at 1 km resolution for the year 2000 (GLC2000) produced by JRC. It is expected to improve such previous global product, in particular because of the finer spatial resolution. The Globcover project is an initiative of ESA in cooperation with an international network of partner including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.
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The GlobCover 2009 map is based on ENVISAT-MERIS observations, with 300 m ground resolution and 22 land cover global classes.
“The latter is based on ENVISAT-MERIS observations (Defourny et al. 2009), with 300 m ground resolution and with 22 land cover global classes (Arino et al. 2007;Li et al. 2016).”
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- Authors
- Arino, O., Gross, D., Ranera, F., Leroy, M., Bicheron, P., Brockman, C., Defourny, P., Vancutsem, C., Achard, F., Durieux, L., Bourg, L., Latham, J., Di Gregorio, A., Witt, R., Herold, M., Sambale, J., Plummer, S., & Weber, J.-L.
- Affiliations
- European Space Research Institute (IT)
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (FR)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
- United Nations Environment Programme (KE)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Joint Research Centre (IT)
- European Environment Agency (DK)
- Venue
- 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 2412-2415
- OpenAlex
- W2100469123
- Cited by
- 302
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 49.25
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) (publishedVersion)
- Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) (submittedVersion)
- Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Keywords
- global land cover, GlobCover, MERIS, land cover mapping, GLC2000, satellite remote sensing
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