How to Download Global Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Data for FREE | ESRI Global LULC Data Download
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In this video, we will show you how to download Global Land Use Land Cover (LULC) data for free. LULC data provides information about the types and extent of land use and land cover across the globe, and is used in a variety of applications such as land management, urban planning, and environmental monitoring.
As of February 2023, this item is in mature support and will be withdrawn in December 2025. This item is now available to you in a new version. To use the updated version, Esri advises updating your maps and applications.
The Sentinel-2 Land Use/Land Cover map published by Esri, Microsoft, and Impact Observatory contains 700 unique 10-meter resolution GeoTIFF files for every year. These files are accessible through this programme. The map is a composite of land use/land cover estimates for 9 classes for each year from 2017 through 2021 and was created using ESA Sentinel-2 images.
Class definitions
1. Water
Areas where water was predominantly present throughout the year; may not cover areas with sporadic or ephemeral water; contains little to no sparse vegetation, no rock outcrop nor built up features like docks; examples: rivers, ponds, lakes, oceans, flooded salt plains.
2. Trees
Any significant clustering of tall (~15-m or higher) dense vegetation, typically with a closed or dense canopy; examples: wooded vegetation, clusters of dense tall vegetation within savannas, plantations, swamp or mangroves (dense/tall vegetation with ephemeral water or canopy too thick to detect water underneath).
4. Flooded vegetation
Areas of any type of vegetation with obvious intermixing of water throughout a majority of the year; seasonally flooded area that is a mix of grass/shrub/trees/bare ground; examples: flooded mangroves, emergent vegetation, rice paddies and other heavily irrigated and inundated agriculture.
5. Crops
Human planted/plotted cereals, grasses, and crops not at tree height; examples: corn, wheat, soy, fallow plots of structured land.
7. Built Area
Human made structures; major road and rail networks; large homogenous impervious surfaces including parking structures, office buildings and residential housing; examples: houses, dense villages / towns / cities, paved roads, asphalt.
8. Bare ground
Areas of rock or soil with very sparse to no vegetation for the entire year; large areas of sand and deserts with no to little vegetation; examples: exposed rock or soil, desert and sand dunes, dry salt flats/pans, dried lake beds, mines.
9. Snow/Ice
Large homogenous areas of permanent snow or ice, typically only in mountain areas or highest latitudes; examples: glaciers, permanent snowpack, snow fields.
10. Clouds
No land cover information due to persistent cloud cover.
11. Rangeland
Open areas covered in homogenous grasses with little to no taller vegetation; wild cereals and grasses with no obvious human plotting (i.e., not a plotted field); examples: natural meadows and fields with sparse to no tree cover, open savanna with few to no trees, parks/golf courses/lawns, pastures. Mix of small clusters of plants or single plants dispersed on a landscape that shows exposed soil or rock; scrub-filled clearings within dense forests that are clearly not taller than trees; examples: moderate to sparse cover of bushes, shrubs and tufts of grass, savannas with very sparse grasses, trees or other plants.
ESRI Global LULC Data Download: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/landco...
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