GlobCover 2009/2006

These use the 300m MERIS sensor on the ENVISAT satellite mission.

• GlobCorine 2005 and 2009 for Pan-European region (300 m) http://dup.esrin.esa.int/page_project114.php   Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, and much of Russia.  Costs money now(?)
• GlobCover 2009 and 2006  (300 m)  http://due.esrin.esa.int/page_globcover.php is a 372 MB download, which includes a compressed TIF file (compressed with an algorithm MICRODEM does not support).  In an uncompressed format, the file is 7 GB in size.  The file is painfully slow to display in ArcGIS 10.  Users should immediately subset the file to cover just the region needed.

GLOBCOV 2.2 for the Chesapeake Bay region

Introduction to Landcover, and other sources of landcover data.

Last revision 11/20/2015