ESA WorldCover land cover#

esa-worldcover · theme land · live

Global 10 m land cover for 2020 (v100) and 2021 (v200), 11 classes from the FAO Land Cover Classification System. The project ended at v200; Copernicus LCFM on CDSE is the successor.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
data = esd.land.landcover.load(aoi)

No account needed

Every route to this product is open. Nothing to set up.

Sources#

2 routes serve this product; the first is the default and source= picks another. The return contract is the same either way.

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

planetary-computer (default)

stac

none

10 m

global

2020, 2021

—

signed hrefs, anonymous; both versions in one collection

aws-open-data

raster_http

none

10 m

global

2020, 2021

—

public eu-central-1 bucket, no signing and no STAC; the tile grid (esa_worldcover_grid.geojson) is cached on first use

Where each route points#

planetary-computer — Planetary Computer live

esa-worldcover

aws-open-data — AWS Open Data bucket live

https://esa-worldcover.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/<version>/<year>/map

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

landcover

—

uint8

0

yes (11 classes)
landcover classes (11)

value

meaning

10

Tree cover

20

Shrubland

30

Grassland

40

Cropland

50

Built-up

60

Bare / sparse vegetation

70

Snow and ice

80

Permanent water bodies

90

Herbaceous wetland

95

Mangroves

100

Moss and lichen

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0

DOI · 10.5281/zenodo.7254221

Cite the data as

Zanaga, D., et al. (2022). ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200. Zenodo.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.land.landcover.load