World land cover, 2009

Feb 4, 2011 (Last modified Feb 7, 2011)
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Land cover for the world derived from MERIS (MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) satellite data for the year 2009, at a spatial resolution of 300 meters. The GlobCover Land Cover product is the highest resolution Global Land Cover product ever produced and independently validated, derived from an automatic and regionally-tuned classification of a time series of MERIS FR composites. It was released in December of 2010.

For more information on the GlobCover project, please visit http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/
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GlobCover data © ESA 2010 and UCLouvain. Should you write any scientific publication on the results of research activities that use the GlobCover products as input, you shall acknowledge ESA in the text of the publication (as given above) and provide ESA with an electronic copy of the publication. If wish to use the GlobCover products in advertising or in any commercial promotion, you shall submit the layout to ESA for approval beforehand (due@esa.int).
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