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Dynamic World

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Near-real-time 10m land cover from Google/WRI, updated every Sentinel-2 pass — land cover that keeps up.

by Google / World Resources Institute

Pricing
Free
License
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
Permitted
Ecosystem
Google Earth Engine
Platform
Web

About Dynamic World

Dynamic World, built by Google and the World Resources Institute, runs a deep-learning classifier over every Sentinel-2 image as it is captured to produce 10m, 9-class land cover with a 2-5 day revisit — the first global land cover product updated in near-real-time rather than as an annual or multi-year release. Probabilistic per-pixel outputs let users threshold confidence rather than accept a single hard classification.

Its currency is the differentiator: for rapidly changing catchments — active construction, deforestation, seasonal cropping — Dynamic World tracks land-cover change as it happens, where WorldCover and CCI Land Cover only offer periodic snapshots. Runs natively in Google Earth Engine.

Where it fits in the workflow

TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting

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