Dynamic World
Free
Near-real-time 10m land cover from Google/WRI, updated every Sentinel-2 pass — land cover that keeps up.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveLand Cover & Surface Water MappingGoogle Earth Engine
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Land Cover & Surface Water Mapping Data
Land cover drives runoff coefficients and curve numbers, and satellite surface-water records turn decades of Landsat and Sentinel imagery into pixel-level water history. This page indexes the global land cover products (ESA WorldCover, Dynamic World, ESA CCI Land Cover) and surface-water datasets (JRC Global Surface Water) water engineers reach for most.
A consistent annual global land cover record at 300m from 1992 — long enough to trend land-use change against.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveLand Cover & Surface Water MappingClimate Reanalysis Data
ESA WorldCover
Free
Global 10m land cover from Sentinel-1/2 — the highest-resolution free global land cover map available.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveLand Cover & Surface Water MappingSCS Curve Number
Google Earth Engine
Freemium
Planetary-scale geospatial analysis in the cloud — the data catalogue and compute behind modern water remote sensing.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveGoogle Earth EngineRemote Sensing
JRC Global Surface Water
Gov-Public
Pixel-level surface water history since 1984, built from the entire Landsat archive — where water has been, and when.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveLand Cover & Surface Water MappingFlood Mapping