10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class)

Description

This dataset, produced by Impact Observatory, Microsoft, and Esri, displays a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from ESA Sentinel-2 imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017 - 2021. Each year is generated from Impact Observatory’s deep learning AI land classification model using a massive training dataset of billions of human-labeled image pixels. The global maps were produced by applying this model to every Sentinel-2 scene, processing over 400,000 Earth observations per year. Leaders in governments, NGOs, finance and industry need trustworthy, actionable information about the changing world to understand opportunities, identify threats, and measure the impacts of actions. Many of the most useful applications of LULC maps require the ability to measure changes in land use and land cover over time. With a time-series of LULC maps, monitoring of deforestation, urban expansion, agricultural land conversion, and surface water scarcity all become possible. The algorithm generates LULC predictions for 9 classes globally. These classifications include Built, Crops, Trees, Water, Rangeland, Flooded Vegetation, Snow/Ice, Bare Ground, and Clouds.

Update Frequency

Annually, each January

License

CC BY 4.0

Documentation

https://www.impactobservatory.com/global_maps

Managed By

See all datasets managed by Impact Observatory.

Contact

hello@impactobservatory.com

How to Cite

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/io-lulc.

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• View the dataset on UN Biodiversity Lab Map Viewer by United Nations Development Programme
  

Publications

• Global land use / land cover with Sentinel 2 and deep learning by K. Karra, C. Kontgis, Z. Statman-Weil, J. C. Mazzariello, M. Mathis and S. P. Brumby
  
• Mapping the world with unmatched frequency by Mark Hannel
  
• The world's most populated and greenest megacities (and how we found out) by Esri
  
• These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years by Fast Company
  
• ‘Very Dire’: Devastated by Floods, Pakistan Faces Looming Food Crisis by New York Times