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ESA WorldCover Land Cover

Global land cover map at 10m resolution using Sentinel-2 data

esa-worldcover.org

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Global 10m resolution
Access
Free
Category
Space Agency
Last updated
2024

What's inside

  • Land Cover
  • Sentinel-2
  • 10m Resolution
  • Global Mapping
  • Urban Analysis

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    No-gauge areas

    Monitor places with no ground stations.

    Because it has: Sentinel-2

  2. 02

    Long records

    Use consistent records going back decades.

  3. 03

    Change mapping

    Map changes in water, land and vegetation.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Segmentation

    Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.

  2. 02

    Data fusion

    Blend satellite and ground data into one better estimate.

  3. 03

    Change detection

    Find what changed, at national scale, automatically.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

esa-worldcover STAC collection

Licence: CC-BY 4.0

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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