Crop cover

Forest cover: areas where forest cover is above 30%. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (30%) were given a value of 1 (YES response) The Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution (CGLS-LC100) is a new product in the portfolio of the CGLS and delivers a global land cover map at 100 m spatial resolution. The CGLS Land Cover product provides a primary land cover scheme. Next to these discrete classes, the product also includes continuous field layers for all basic land cover classes that provide proportional estimates for vegetation/ground cover for the land cover types. This continuous classification scheme may depict areas of heterogeneous land cover better than the standard classification scheme and, as such, can be tailored for application use (e.g. forest monitoring, crop monitoring, biodiversity and conservation, monitoring environment and security in Africa, climate modelling, etc.). These consistent Land Cover maps (v3.0.1) are provided for the period 2015-2019 over the entire Globe, derived from the PROBA-V 100 m time-series, a database of high quality land cover training sites and several ancillary datasets, reaching an accuracy of 80% at Level1 over all years. It is planned to provide yearly updates from 2020 through the use of a Sentinel time-series. **Data revision:** 2021-12-14 **Contact points:** Contact: [Marcel Buchhorn](mailto:marcel.buchhorn@vito.be) Remote Sensing Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research Metadata contact: [OCB Environment](mailto:OCB-Environment-List@fao.org) FAO-UN **Resource constraints:** - The dataset contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2005-2019]; - Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. More information on Copernicus License in PDF version at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf **Online resources:** Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers

Grass cover: areas where grass cover is above 30%. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (30%) were given a value of 1 (YES response) The Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution (CGLS-LC100) is a new product in the portfolio of the CGLS and delivers a global land cover map at 100 m spatial resolution. The CGLS Land Cover product provides a primary land cover scheme. Next to these discrete classes, the product also includes continuous field layers for all basic land cover classes that provide proportional estimates for vegetation/ground cover for the land cover types. This continuous classification scheme may depict areas of heterogeneous land cover better than the standard classification scheme and, as such, can be tailored for application use (e.g. forest monitoring, crop monitoring, biodiversity and conservation, monitoring environment and security in Africa, climate modelling, etc.). These consistent Land Cover maps (v3.0.1) are provided for the period 2015-2019 over the entire Globe, derived from the PROBA-V 100 m time-series, a database of high quality land cover training sites and several ancillary datasets, reaching an accuracy of 80% at Level1 over all years. It is planned to provide yearly updates from 2020 through the use of a Sentinel time-series. **Data revision:** 2021-12-14 **Contact points:** Contact: [Marcel Buchhorn](mailto:marcel.buchhorn@vito.be) Remote Sensing Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research Metadata contact: [OCB Environment](mailto:OCB-Environment-List@fao.org) FAO-UN **Resource constraints:** - The dataset contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2005-2019]; - Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. More information on Copernicus License in PDF version at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf **Online resources:** Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers

Shrub cover: areas where shrub cover is above 30%. Pixels with a value higher than the specified threshold (30%) were given a value of 1 (YES response) The Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution (CGLS-LC100) is a new product in the portfolio of the CGLS and delivers a global land cover map at 100 m spatial resolution. The CGLS Land Cover product provides a primary land cover scheme. Next to these discrete classes, the product also includes continuous field layers for all basic land cover classes that provide proportional estimates for vegetation/ground cover for the land cover types. This continuous classification scheme may depict areas of heterogeneous land cover better than the standard classification scheme and, as such, can be tailored for application use (e.g. forest monitoring, crop monitoring, biodiversity and conservation, monitoring environment and security in Africa, climate modelling, etc.). These consistent Land Cover maps (v3.0.1) are provided for the period 2015-2019 over the entire Globe, derived from the PROBA-V 100 m time-series, a database of high quality land cover training sites and several ancillary datasets, reaching an accuracy of 80% at Level1 over all years. It is planned to provide yearly updates from 2020 through the use of a Sentinel time-series. **Data revision:** 2021-12-14 **Contact points:** Contact: [Marcel Buchhorn](mailto:marcel.buchhorn@vito.be) Remote Sensing Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research Metadata contact: [OCB Environment](mailto:OCB-Environment-List@fao.org) FAO-UN **Resource constraints:** - The dataset contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [2005-2019]; - Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. More information on Copernicus License in PDF version at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api/v2/terms/static/licence-to-use-copernicus-products.pdf **Online resources:** Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers

The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) archives and distributes Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) data products through the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program. The GFCC Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global dataset provides estimates of changes in forest cover from 1990 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2005 at 30 meter spatial resolution. The GFCC30FCC product represents a global record of fine-scale changes in forest dynamics between observation periods. The forest cover change product was generated from the GFCC Tree Cover (GFCC30TC) product which is based on Global Land Survey (GLS) data acquired by the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors. Each forest cover product has two GeoTIFF files associated with it; a change map file and a change probability file. Data follow the Worldwide Reference System-2 tiling scheme. Additional details regarding the methodology used to create the data are available in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD).

The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) archives and distributes Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) data products through the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program. The GFCC Tree Cover Multi-Year Global dataset is available for four epochs centered on the years 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. The dataset is derived from the GFCC Surface Reflectance product (GFCC30SR), which is based on enhanced Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets. The GLS datasets are composed of high-resolution Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images at 30 meter resolution. GFCC30TC provides tree canopy information and can be used to understand forest changes. Each tree cover product features four files associated with it; a tree cover layer with an embedded color map, a tree cover error (uncertainty) file, and an index (provenance) file, plus a list of path/rows that relate to the Surface Reflectance input files. Note that the index file and file list were not generated for the 2015 epoch. Data follow the Worldwide Reference System-2 tiling scheme. Additional details regarding the methodology used to create the data are available in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD).

The dominant land cover dataset represents the extent and distribution of the major land cover types at the global level. It is part of the Global Land Cover-SHARE (GLC-SHARE) database at the global level created by FAO, Land and Water Division in partnership and with contribution from various partners and institutions. The dominant land cover type includes the following eleven major thematic land cover classes resulting by a combination of “best available” high resolution national, regional and/or sub-national land cover databases. The data is produced with a resolution of 30 arc-second2 (~1sqkm) 01-Artificial Surfaces 02-CropLand 03-Grassland 04-Tree Covered Area 05-Shrubs Covered Area 06-Herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded 07-Mangroves 08-Sparse vegetation 09-BareSoil 10-Snow and glaciers 11-Waterbodies **Data publication:** 2014-02-03 **Supplemental Information:** Scale Factor : 1.0 Map code : DLCP **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [GIS Manager](mailto:GIS-Manager@fao.org) Resource Contact: Land and Water Division FAO-UN Resource Contact: [Matieu Henry](mailto:Matieu.Henry@fao.org) **Data lineage:** The land cover database is validated only using the high resolution remote sensing imagery present in Google Earth. **Resource constraints:** Reproduction and dissemination of material contained in GLC-SHARE Beta-Release v1.0 or educational, research, personal or other noncommercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders, provided FAO are fully acknowledged. No part of GLC-SHARE Beta-Release v1.0 data may be downloaded, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means for resale or other commercial purposes without written permission of the copyright holders. If any information or resources on this site are attributed to a site or source external to FAO permission to use must be sought with FAO. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. FAO declines all responsibility for errors or deficiencies in the database or software or in the documentation accompanying it, for program maintenance and upgrading as well as for any damage that may arise from them. FAO also declines any responsibility for updating the data and assumes no responsibility for errors and omissions in the data provided. Users are, however, kindly asked to report any errors or deficiencies in this product to FAO. **Online resources:** Download the data from Google Cloud Storage Download GLC-Share report Download GLC-Share - Dominant land cover type with legend in LYR ESRI format Download GLC-Share - Sources