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ESA CCI Land Cover
ActiveA consistent annual global land cover record at 300m from 1992 — long enough to trend land-use change against.
by European Space Agency (CCI)
- Pricing
- Free
- License
- Free, no registration required
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Any GIS, Python
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
About ESA CCI Land Cover
ESA CCI Land Cover provides an annual global land cover map at 300m resolution from 1992 to 2015 (continued operationally through the Copernicus Climate Change Service since), built to a consistent methodology specifically so successive years are comparable — a property higher-resolution but sporadically-released products like WorldCover don't offer.
Where WorldCover and Dynamic World win on spatial detail and currency, CCI Land Cover wins on record length: it is the product to reach for when the question is "how has land use in this basin trended over 30 years," not "what is on the ground this month."
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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