Data Sources for Land Cover
This list provides sources for openly accessible data sets with worldwide coverage for which metadata is available. It is curated by the respective GCOS ECV Steward(s). The list does not claim to be complete. Anyone with a suitable dataset who wishes it to be added to this list should contact the GCOS Secretariat.
- ESA-CCI Land Cover data
http://www.esa-landcover-cci.org/
- MODIS global land cover data:
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod12.php
- Copernicus Global Land Monitoring Service
https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/lc
- GOFC-GOLD
- CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation Land Product Validation Subgroup
- Satellite ECV Inventory by the CEOS/CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate)