Several weeks ago, we added the World Land Cover 2010 ESA layer to the Living Atlas. This layer’s data is from the 2010 epoch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Land Cover Project. These data are raster format at 300-meter resolution and represent 36 land cover classes based on the United Nations Land Cover Classification System (LCCS).
Excerpt from World LandCover ESA 2010 showing the Pyrenees Mountains in the south, and Garonne Valley of France in the north.
Unlike many classified land cover datasets that use dominant condition classifications, this classification contains some mixed or mosaic classes. For example:
<ul>“Mosaic herbaceous cover (>50%) / Trees and shrub (50%) / natural vegetation (Tree, shrub, herbaceous cover) (
Excerpt from World LandCover ESA 2010 showing the Pyrenees Mountains in the south, and Garonne Valley of France in the north.Unlike many classified land cover datasets that use dominant condition classifications, this classification contains some mixed or mosaic classes. For example:
<ul>“Mosaic herbaceous cover (>50%) / Trees and shrub (50%) / natural vegetation (Tree, shrub, herbaceous cover) (