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The Land Cover CCI Climate Research Data Package (CRDP) contains all data products that have been generated within the project:

  • A Global Plant Functional Types (PFT) dataset (v2.0.8), a set of 14 PFT maps available yearly from 1992 to 2020 at 300 m. Consistency maintained with the ESA CCI/C3S Land Cover map series 1992-2020;
    1. Citable as: Kandice L. Harper, Céline Lamarche, Andrew Hartley, Philippe Peylin, Catherine Ottlé, Vladislav Bastrikov, Rodrigo San Martín, Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, Grit Kirches, Martin Boettcher, Roman Shevchuk, Carsten Brockmann, and Pierre Defourny. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1465 – 1499, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1465-2023, 2023.
  • A series of consistent global LC maps at 300 m spatial resolution on an annual basis from 1992 to 2020;
    1. Citable as: Defourny, P., Lamarche, C., Brockmann, C., Boettcher, M., Bontemps, S., De Maet, T., Duveiller, G. L. Harper, K., Hartley A., Kirches, G., Moreau, I., Peylin, P., Ottlé, C., Radoux J., Van Bogaert, E., Ramoino, F., Albergel, C., and Arino, O.: Observed annual global land-use change from 1992 to 2020 three times more dynamic than reported by inventory-based statistics, in preparation, 2023.
  • 1 user tool for sub-setting, re-projecting and re-sampling the products in a way which is suitable to each climate model;
  • The full archive of AVHRR HRPT 1 km surface reflectance 7-day composites from 1992 to 1999;
  • The full archive of MERIS surface reflectance 7-day composites from 2003 to 2011 (300 m and 1 km resolution);
  • A PROBA-V 1 km time series of surface reflectance 7-day composites from mid March 2014 to end 2015;
  • 1 static map of open water bodies including ENVISAT ASAR data;
    1. Citable as: Lamarche, C.; Santoro, M.; Bontemps, S.; D'Andrimont, R.; Radoux, J.; Giustarini, L.; Brockmann, C.; Wevers, J.; Defourny, P.; Arino, O. Compilation and Validation of SAR and Optical Data Products for a Complete and Global Map of Inland/Ocean Water Tailored to the Climate Modeling Community. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9010036
  • 3 global land surface seasonality products characterizing the vegetation greenness, the snow and the burned areas dynamics.

Upcoming

The LC maps 2021 and 2022 will be released internally in July 2023 and late April 2024, respectively. We will keep you informed of when the maps are published.

March 2023

Release of the Global Plant Functional Types (PFT) dataset (v2.0.8), a set of 14 PFT maps available yearly from 1992 to 2020 at 300 m. Consistency maintained with the ESA CCI/C3S Land Cover map series 1992-2020.
May 2021 Release of the ESA CCI/C3S Global Land Cover product 2020 (v2.1.1)
January 2021 Release of the ESA CCI/C3S Global Land Cover product 2019 (v2.1.1)
October 2019 C3S Global Land Cover products available for 2016, 2017 and 2018 (v2.1.1) consistent with the CCI 1992 - 2015 map series (v2.0.7)
June 2019 The user tool v4.3 is now completely and successfully tested with all LC-CCI map products and the LC-CCI condition products. Furthermore, it is also successfully tested with LC maps for 2016 and 2017 (C3S-LOT5)
October 2018 Revised netcdf climate research data package compatible with user tools v3.12 and greater
February 2018 A LC package prepared for Sen2Cor users
April 2017 Moving from 5y-epochs to annual LC maps

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Contact Points

We invite you to contact us at contact@esa-landcover-cci.org for:

  • questions regarding the content and usage of the above-mentioned products
  • general comments or questions about the the CCI-LC project or the website

Terms of use

The present products are made available to the public by ESA and the consortium. You may use one or several CCI-LC products land cover map for educational and/or scientific purposes, without any fee on the condition that you credit the ESA Climate Change Initiative and in particular its Land Cover project as the source of the CCI-LC database:

Copyright notice:

© ESA Climate Change Initiative - Land Cover led by UCLouvain (2017)

Should you write any scientific publication on the results of research activities that use one or several CCI-LC products as input, you shall acknowledge the ESA CCI Land Cover project in the text of the publication and provide the project with an electronic copy of the publication (contact@esa-landcover-cci.org).

If you wish to use one or several CCI-LC products in advertising or in any commercial promotion, you shall acknowledge the ESA CCI Land Cover project and you must submit the layout to the project for approval beforehand (contact@esa-landcover-cci.org).