ESA WorldCover 10m v100

  • The ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 product provides a global land cover map for 2020 at 10-meter resolution.

  • This dataset is based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data and includes 11 distinct land cover classes.

  • It was created as part of the ESA WorldCover project, within the European Space Agency's EOEP-5 program.

  • The dataset is freely available under the CC-BY-4.0 license and can be accessed through Google Earth Engine.

  • Users can find more information, including a user manual and validation report, on the ESA WorldCover website.
ESA/WorldCover/v100
Dataset Availability
2020-01-01T00:00:00Z–2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("ESA/WorldCover/v100")
Tags
esa landcover landuse landuse-landcover sentinel1-derived sentinel2-derived

Description

The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover 10 m 2020 product provides a global land cover map for 2020 at 10 m resolution based on 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.

See also:

Bands

Pixel Size
10 meters

Bands

Name Pixel Size Description
Map meters

Landcover class

Map Class Table

Value Color Description
10 #006400

Tree cover
20 #ffbb22

Shrubland
30 #ffff4c

Grassland
40 #f096ff

Cropland
50 #fa0000

Built-up
60 #b4b4b4

Bare / sparse vegetation
70 #f0f0f0

Snow and ice
80 #0064c8

Permanent water bodies
90 #0096a0

Herbaceous wetland
95 #00cf75

Mangroves
100 #fae6a0

Moss and lichen

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

CC-BY-4.0

Citations

Citations:

  • 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. (doi:10.5281/zenodo.5571936)

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('ESA/WorldCover/v100').first();

var visualization = {
  bands: ['Map'],
};

Map.centerObject(dataset);

Map.addLayer(dataset, visualization, 'Landcover');

Python setup

See the Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using geemap for interactive development.

import ee
import geemap.core as geemap

Colab (Python)

dataset = ee.ImageCollection('ESA/WorldCover/v100').first()

visualization = {
    'bands': ['Map'],
}

m = geemap.Map()
m.center_object(dataset)
m.add_layer(dataset, visualization, 'Landcover')
m
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The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover 10 m 2020 product provides a global land cover map for 2020 at 10 m resolution based on 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 …
ESA/WorldCover/v100, esa,landcover,landuse,landuse-landcover,sentinel1-derived,sentinel2-derived
2020-01-01T00:00:00Z/2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
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