Arino, Olivier; Ramos Perez, Jose Julio; Kalogirou, Vasileios; Bontemps, Sophie; Defourny, Pierre; Van Bogaert, Eric (2012): Global Land Cover Map for 2009 (GlobCover 2009) [dataset]. © European Space Agency (ESA) & Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787668
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Abstract:
The GlobCover initiative of ESA developed and demonstrated a service for the generation of global land cover maps, based on Envisat MERIS Fine Resolution (300 m) mode data. ESA and Université catholique de Louvain demonstrated the possibility to use the GlobCover system operationally by delivering GlobCover 2009, the 2009 global land cover map, within a year of the last satellite acquisition. For maximum user benefit the thematic legend of GlobCover is compatible with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The system is based on an automatic pre-processing and classification chain. Finally, the global land cover map was validated by an international group of land cover experts and the validation reports are also available to the user community.
Related to:
Arino, Olivier; Ramos Perez, Jose Julio; Kalogirou, Vasileios; Defourny, Pierre (2009): GLOBCOVER 2009. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010, 28th June - 2nd July, Bergen, Norway, SP-686, hdl:10013/epic.39894.d001
Arino, Olivier; Ramos Perez, Jose Julio; Kalogirou, Vasileios; Defourny, Pierre; Achard, F (2010): GLOBCOVER 2009. ESA-iLEAPS-EGU Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Science. 3rd - 5th November, Frascati, Italy, SP-688, short paper, 3 pp, hdl:10013/epic.39889.d001
Bontemps, Sophie; Defourny, Pierre; Van Bogaert, Eric; Arino, Olivier; Kalogirou, Vasileios; Ramos Perez, Jose Julio (2011): GLOBCOVER 2009 Products description and validation report. Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) & European Space Agency (esa), Vers. 2.2, 53 pp, hdl:10013/epic.39884.d016
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 0.000000 * Median Longitude: 180.000000 * South-bound Latitude: -90.000000 * West-bound Longitude: 180.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 90.000000 * East-bound Longitude: 180.000000
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Comment:
Should you write any scientific publication on the results of research activities that use GlobCover products as input, you shall acknowledge the ESA GlobCover 2009 Project in the text of the publication and provide ESA with an electronic copy of the publication. If you wish to use the GlobCover 2009 products in advertising or in any commercial promotion, you shall acknowledge the ESA GlobCover 2009 Project and you must submit the layout to ESA for approval beforehand (due@esa.int).
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | File name | File name | Kalogirou, Vasileios | |||
| 2 | File size | File size | kByte | Kalogirou, Vasileios | ||
| 3 | File format | File format | Kalogirou, Vasileios | |||
| 4 | Uniform resource locator/link to file | URL file | Kalogirou, Vasileios | |||
| 5 | File content | Content | Kalogirou, Vasileios |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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| 1 File name | 2 File size [kByte] | 3 File format | 4 URL file | 5 Content |
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| GlobCover2009_ReadMe.pdf | 45 | GlobCover2009_ReadMe.pdf | readme explaining all files | |
| GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3_CLA_QL.tif | 70000 | GEOTIFF, LZW compressed | GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3_CLA_QL.tif | raster classified from the MERIS FR time series (pixel value = null) or from the reference land cover database used for the labelling (pixel value = 1) |
| GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3.color.tif | 392800 | GEOTIFF, LZW compressed | GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3.color.tif | full resolution data in color (RGB) |
| GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3.tif | 392300 | GEOTIFF, LZW compressed | GLOBCOVER_L4_200901_200912_V2.3.tif | full resolution data in greyscale, ID values stand for the land cover classes values |
| GlobCover2009_Legend.dsr | 1 | Envi | GlobCover2009_Legend.dsr | color map of the GlobCover land cover |
| GlobCover2009_Legend.lyr | 16 | ARC/INFO | GlobCover2009_Legend.lyr | color map of the GlobCover land cover |
| GlobCover2009_Legend.txt | 2 | text | GlobCover2009_Legend.txt | legend of the land cover map, ID values of GEOTIFF raster are linked with the corresponding land cover labels and RGB codes |
| GlobCover2009_Preview.jpg | 3200 | jpg | GlobCover2009_Preview.jpg | preview |
