UNEP/GRID-Geneva metadata catalogue
GlobCover 300m (ESA-DUE)
GlobCover is an ESA initiative which began in 2005 in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP.
The aim of the project was to develop a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps using as input observations from the 300m MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission. ESA makes available the land cover maps, which cover 2 periods: December 2004 - June 2006 and January - December 2009.
For maximum user benefit the thematic legend of GlobCover is compatible with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The system is based on an automatic pre-processing and classification chain. Both of the two global land cover maps (2005/2006 and 2009) provided in the framework of GlobCover have been validated by an international group of land cover experts and the validation reports were made available to the user community. Except for the global land cover maps, a set of MERIS by-products were also made freely available through the main data distribution source, ESA Ionia Server.
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2010-12-21T00:00:00
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- GRID core datasets
- global
- Land cover
- Meris
- LCCS
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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The GlobCover products have been processed by ESA and by the Université catholique de Louvain. They are made available to the public by ESA. You may use the GlobCover land cover map for educational and/or scientific purposes, without any fee on the condition that you credit ESA and the Université catholique de Louvain as the source of the GlobCover products:
Copyright notice: © ESA 2010 and UCLouvain
Should you write any scientific publication on the results of research activities that use GlobCover products as input, you shall acknowledge the ESA GlobCover 2009 Project in the text of the publication and provide ESA with an electronic copy of the publication (due@esa.int ).
If you wish to use the GlobCover 2009 products in advertising or in any commercial promotion, you shall acknowledge the ESA GlobCover 2009 Project and you must submit the layout to ESA for approval beforehand (due@esa.int ).
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 25000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2005
- End date
- 2009
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- OnLine resource
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GlobCover 300m
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Supplementary Information
- OnLine resource
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GlobCover 300m V2.2 - year 2005-06
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Data access (Download FTP - GeoTIF)
- OnLine resource
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GlobCover 300m V2.3 - year 2009
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Data access (Download FTP - GeoTIF)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- c879e5b5-0af2-44ac-b7f6-44c42f7a5cb5 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2016-09-07T14:40:44
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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