ESA WorldCover

Description

The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover product provides global land cover maps for 2020 & 2021 at 10 m resolution based on Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The WorldCover product comes with 11 land cover classes and has been generated in the framework of the ESA WorldCover project, part of the 5th Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5) of the European Space Agency. A first version of the product (v100), containing the 2020 map was released in October 2021. The 2021 map was released in October 2022 using an improved algorithm (v200). The WorldCover 2020 and 2021 maps were generated with different algorithm versions and therefore changes between the maps should be treated with caution as these contain both real land cover changes as well as changes due to the used algorithms.

Update Frequency

Yearly.

License

CC-BY 4.0

Documentation

Documentation is available here.

Managed By

See all datasets managed by VITO.

Contact

https://esa-worldcover.org/en/contact

How to Cite

ESA WorldCover was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/esa-worldcover-vito. To cite the dataset in a publication please refer to the Citation section/DOI v200/DOI v100.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Exploring the dataset (STAC API examples) by VITO
  
• Global Fire Spread Prediction System by SatelliteVu
  

Tools & Applications

• ESA Viewer 2020 by ESA
  
• ESA Viewer 2021 by ESA
  
• TerraScope Viewer by TerraScope
  
• WorldCover GEE App by VITO
  
• WorldCover Viewer by VITO
  

Publications

• ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100 by Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021.
  
• ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100 - Product User Manual by VITO
  
• ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 by Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R.,Daems, D.,De Keersmaecker, W., Brockmann, C., Kirches, G., Wevers, J., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Lesiv, M., Herold, M., Tsendbazar, N.E., Xu, P., Ramoino, F., Arino, O.
  
• ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 - Product User Manual by VITO
  
• Fusing GEDI with earth observation data for large area aboveground biomass mapping by Yuri Shendryk
  
• Release of the 10 m WorldCover map by Ruben Van De Kerchove
  
• The world's most populated and greenest megacities (and how we found out) by Michael Dangermond, Emily Meriam
  
• WorldCover taking it to the next level by Ruben Van De Kerchove