GlobCover: ESA service for global land cover from MERIS

Author

Arino, Olivier ; Gross, Dorit ; Ranera, Franck ; Bourg, Ludovic ; Leroy, Marc ; Bicheron, Patrice ; Latham, John ; Gregorio, Antonio Di ; Brockman, Carsten ; Witt, Ron ; Defourny, Pierre ; Vancutsem, Christelle ; Herold, Martin ; Sambale, Jacqueline ; Ach

Author_Institution

ESA-ESRIN, Frascati

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

2412

Lastpage

2415

Abstract

The Globcover initiative comprises the development and demonstration of a service that in first instance produces a global land cover map for year 2005/2006. Globcover uses MERIS fine resolution (300 m) mode data acquired between mid 2005 and mid 2006 and, for maximum user benefit, the thematic legend is compatible with the UN land cover classification system (LCCS). This new product updates and complements the other existing comparable global products, such as the global land cover map at 1 km resolution for the year 2000 (GLC2000) produced by JRC. It is expected to improve such previous global product, in particular because of the finer spatial resolution. The Globcover project is an initiative of ESA in cooperation with an international network of partner including EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysics computing; terrain mapping; AD 2005; AD 2006; ESA service; GLC2000; GlobCover initiative; MERIS data; global land cover; land cover classification system; Area measurement; Data acquisition; Global Earth Observation System of Systems; Layout; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Surfaces; Testing; Global Mosaic; MERIS FRS L1B; land cover;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423328

Filename

4423328