
ESA WorldCover
Provided by: VITO , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: VITO , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative

ESA WorldCover
Provided by: VITO , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: VITO , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.
Description
The European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover product provides global land cover maps for 2020 & 2021 at 10 m resolution based on Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. The WorldCover product comes with 11 land cover classes and has been generated in the framework of the ESA WorldCover project, part of the 5th Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5) of the European Space Agency. A first version of the product (v100), containing the 2020 map was released in October 2021. The 2021 map was released in October 2022 using an improved algorithm (v200). The WorldCover 2020 and 2021 maps were generated with different algorithm versions and therefore changes between the maps should be treated with caution as these contain both real land cover changes as well as changes due to the used algorithms.
License
CC-BY 4.0
Documentation
Documentation is available here .
How to cite
ESA WorldCover was accessed on DATE
from https://registry.opendata.aws/esa-worldcover-vito .
To cite the dataset in a publication please refer to the Citation section /DOI v200 /DOI v100 .
Update frequency
Yearly.
Support information
Managed by: VITO
General AWS Data Exchange support
Resources on AWS
Description
ESA WorldCover in a S3 bucket
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::esa-worldcover
AWS Region
eu-central-1
AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://esa-worldcover/
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Usage examples
Publications
- ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100 by Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021.
- ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100 - Product User Manual by VITO
- ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 by Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R.,Daems, D.,De Keersmaecker, W., Brockmann, C., Kirches, G., Wevers, J., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Lesiv, M., Herold, M., Tsendbazar, N.E., Xu, P., Ramoino, F., Arino, O.
- ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 - Product User Manual by VITO
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- Release of the 10 m WorldCover map by Ruben Van De Kerchove
- The world's most populated and greenest megacities (and how we found out) by Michael Dangermond, Emily Meriam
- WorldCover taking it to the next level by Ruben Van De Kerchove
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