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ESA WorldCover
ActiveGlobal 10m land cover from Sentinel-1/2 — the highest-resolution free global land cover map available.
by European Space Agency
- Pricing
- Free
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Google Earth Engine, Any GIS
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
About ESA WorldCover
ESA WorldCover classifies the entire global land surface at 10m resolution into 11 land cover classes, derived from Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical composites for 2020 and 2021, validated with a dedicated field campaign. At 10m it resolves individual fields and urban blocks that 300m-1km legacy land cover products (like ESA CCI Land Cover) blur together.
For runoff-coefficient and curve-number derivation, impervious-surface estimation and any study where land-cover resolution matters as much as its classification accuracy, WorldCover is the current global standard.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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