GlobCover
Global Land Cover Service
Global Land Cover service Development of an EO system for the production of global land-cover maps, using ENVISAT MERIS Fine Resolution (300m) data
GlobCover | |
Global Land Cover Service | |
DUE (Data User Element) | |
Land | |
€1,000k | |
Service Demonstration | |
Completed | |
ENVISAT : MERIS |
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The GlobCover initiative of ESA developed and demonstrated a service for the generation of global land cover maps, based on Envisat MERIS Fine Resolution (300 m) mode data. During its initial implementation (2005-2008) the project was ran by a large consortium led by Medias-France, with the partnership of EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP. This first phase was completed successfully in October 2008 with the public announcement of the first GlobCover global land cover map for the year 2005/2006. In 2010, ESA and Universite' Catholique de Louvain demonstrated the possibility to use the GlobCover system operationally by delivering GlobCover 2009, the 2009 global land cover map, within a year of the last satellite acquisition. Currently, GlobCover 2009 is the most detailed and recent global land cover map available. For maximum user benefit the thematic legend of GlobCover is compatible with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The system is based on an automatic pre-processing and classification chain. Both of the two global land cover maps (2005/2006 and 2009) provided in the framework of GlobCover have been validated by an international group of land cover experts and the validation reports were made available to the user community. Except for the global land cover maps, a set of MERIS by-products were also made freely available through the main data distribution source, ESA Ionia Server. To date (May 2011), over 50,000 downloads of the GlobCover 2009 have been done. |
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GlobCover 2009 - Validation Report GlobCover 2005/06 - Product Description & Validation Report GlobCover at IGARSS, July 2007 GlobCover at the Envisat Symposium, April 2007 GlobCover at EARSeL, September 2006 (abstract) GlobCover at ISPRS, May 2006 GlobCover Flyer Newsletter August 2008 33_ISRSE_Validation GlobCover_v1 GlobCover 2009 - Product Description Manual GlobCover 2009 in ESA Living Planet Symposium 2010 GlobCover 2009 in ESA-iLEAPS-EGU Science Conference GlobCover 2009 in El Mundo Newsletter December 2008 Newsletter October 2009 Newsletter July 2010 Newsletter December 2010 Newsletter July 2005 Newsletter July 2006 Newsletter November 2006 Newsletter May 2007 Newsletter Jannuary 2008 ESA Bulletin 136 - Globcover |
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SPACEBEL MICROSOFT Netherlands UCL-Geomatics Brockmann Consult Gmbh Magellium NOVELTIS |
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GOFC IGBP FAO UNEP JRC EEA |
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Patrice Bicheron MEDIAS-France 18, avenue E. Belin, CNES bpi 2102 31 401 Toulouse Cedex 9 FRANCE Tel: 33 5 61 27 42 43 Fax: 33 5 61 28 29 05 Email: Patrice.Bicheron@medias.cnes.fr Dr Pierre Defourny [GlobCover 2009 phase] ENGE - Place Croix du Sud, 2 (bte.16) 1348 - Louvain-La-Neuve BELGIUM |
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Dr Olivier Arino European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP Via Galileo Galilei C.P.94 I-00044 Frascati (RM) ITALY Tel: +39 06-941.80564 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 Email: Olivier.Arino@esa.int |