Global Land Cover Map

For previous monitoring activities, please refer to the web archive (as of october 13, 2020) on warp, national diet library, japan. Land use/land cover maps are a snapshot in time, but natural processes and human activity can rapidly change the landscape. In particular the gvm unit is coordinating and implementing the global land cover 2000 project (glc 2000) in collaboration with a network of partners around the world.

These updates will reflect improvements to the global land cover map arising from continued site database development, refinements to the classification algorithm, and feedback regarding map quality from the user community and validation activities. Land use land cover taxonomy. Land cover maps represent different types (classes) of physical coverage of the earth’s surface, like for example desert, forest,.

Therefore, it is possible to compare and integrate glcnmo and other land cover data products based on lccs.

The updated 2015 classification map shows. 1) the zip file globcover2009_v2.3_global_.zip (information can be found in the globcover2009_readme.pdf which is included), 2) updated product description and validation report (files/globcover2009_validation_report_2.2.pdf)3) a coloured version of the map in. Explore the state of forests worldwide by analyzing tree cover change on gfw’s interactive global forest map using satellite data. For previous monitoring activities, please refer to the web archive (as of october 13, 2020) on warp, national diet library, japan.