C3S Satellite Land Cover
Copernicus Climate Change Initiative global land cover maps at 300m resolution from 1992 to present derived from multiple satellite sensors including AVHRR, SPOT-VGT, MERIS, and Sentinel-3
cds.climate.copernicus.eu
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global, 300m resolution, annual maps 1992-present
- Access
- Registration Required
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Land Cover Classification
- Land Use Change
- Water Bodies
- Annual Maps
- Time Series
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
- 02
Future water
Estimate water availability under future scenarios.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
- 02
Emulators
Replace slow model runs with fast ML emulators.
- 03
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
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