Land Cover Overview

Land cover is a grid which assigns a code to each point in the data set based on occurs there.  It differs from land use, but obviously the two are related.  The code is normally a byte, and there are usually a few dozen categories.

Global Land Coverage 2000--1 km pixels	GlobCover 2009--300 m pixels	US NLCD 30 m pixels (1992, 2001, 2006, 2011)

Other land cover data sets

• CDL--Cropland Data Layer  USDA 56 m resolution
• NOAA Coastal Change Land Cover
  • Coastal Change Analysis Program Regional Land Cover, 30 m resolution
  • Coastal change analysis high resolution land cover: for very limited, targeted areas, 1-5 m resolution
• Global Land Coverage 2000 (1 km)
• GlobCover 2009 and 2006 (300 m resolution)
• Corine Land cover 2000 and 2006 for Europe (100m and 250m)
• ESA CCI data: http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php
• Africa shapefile and KMZ landcover: http://www.glcn.org/databases/lc_gc-africa_en.jsp
• Africa 20 m landcover from Sentinel satellite
  • http://2016africalandcover20m.esrin.esa.int/viewer.php  (view in web browser)
  • http://2016africalandcover20m.esrin.esa.int/download.php (download 6 GB Geotiff)

Biomes

• US Terrestrial biomes: http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/ecosystems/dataviewer.shtml

http://worldgrids.org/doku.php?id=wiki:land_cover_and_land_use

 Last revision5/ 9/2016