Crop Mask Title:
Globcover
Coverage:
Global
Spatial resolution:
300 meters
Satellite:
MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission
Year:
January - December 2009
Version:
Globcover 2009 mask is version 2.3.
Organization:
The GlobCover products have been processed by ESA and by the Université Catholique de Louvain. They are made available to the public by ESA. You may use the GlobCover land cover map for educational and/or scientific purposes, without any fee on the condition that you credit ESA and the Université Catholique de Louvain as the source of the GlobCover products:
Resource Contact:
European Space Agency
due@esa.int
Resource Abstract:
GlobCover is an ESA initiative which began in 2005 in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP. The aim of the project was to develop a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps using as input observations from the 300m MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission. ESA makes available the land cover maps, which cover 2 periods: December 2004 - June 2006 and January - December 2009.
Resource Classification Categories:
GlobCover legend categories for croplands follow:
11 Post-flooding or irrigated croplands
14 Rainfed croplands
20 Mosaic Cropland (50-70%) / Vegetation (grassland, shrubland, forest) (20-50%)
30 Mosaic Vegetation (grassland, shrubland, forest) (50-70%) / Cropland (20-50%)
Reprocessing for MODIS-GLAM (250-meter) applications:
The 300-m Globcover 2009 crop mask was resampled to 250-meters for cropland data drilling on MODIS-GLAM. The processing steps follow:
Resource URL:
Product Description and Validation Report
http://due.esrin.esa.int/files/GLOBCOVER2009_Validation_Report_2.2.pdf
Download URL:
http://due.esrin.esa.int/page_globcover.php
Resource Citation:
UCLouvain & ESA. 2011. GLOBCOVER 2009 Products Description and Validation Report, 18/02/2011. UCLouvain Team: Sophie Bontemps, Pierre Defourny, Eric Van Bogaert
ESA Team: Olivier Arino, Vasileios Kalogirou, Jose Ramos Perez