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CLMS Land Cover (LC) Global 100m yearly V3 (COG)
The Dynamic Land Cover product provides a primary land cover scheme at three classification levels with class definitions according to the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) scheme. This Collection 3 includes global land cover maps at 100 m resolution for base year 2015 and subsequent years until 2019, including a base classification with 23 classes, versatile fractional cover layers and forest type information.
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Licence: other
Evidence quality: 33.7
Listed in cdse-stac public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered llm-inferred
- land cover classes (base classification with 23 classes, LCCS-based, three classification levels) · fractional cover layers · forest type information
- Coverage llm-inferred
- Global · base year 2015 and subsequent years to 2019
- Resolution llm-inferred
- 100 m
- Update frequency llm-inferred
- yearly (from collection ID; description lists years 2015 to 2019 only)
- Formats llm-inferred
- COG (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF)
- Access llm-inferred
- No authentication listed; licence 'other' (terms not stated in metadata)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Baseline land cover context for flood risk assessment catchments · Fractional cover inputs for runoff or infiltration parameterisation · Forest type and land cover baseline for BNG habitat mapping
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · hydrologists · ecologists · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- 100 m resolution is coarse for site-scale UK work · Licence 'other'; terms need checking before commercial use · Description covers 2015 to 2019 only · No docs retrieved; enrichment is based on entry metadata alone
Evidence
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.