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ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Cover Maps (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF)

The ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) [Land Cover dataset](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-land-cover?tab=overview) provides consistent global annual land cover maps at 300m spatial resolution from 1992 to 2020. The land cover classes are defined using the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (UN FAO) [Land Cover Classification System](https://www.fao.org/land-water/land/land-governance/land-resources-planning-toolbox/category/details/en/c/1036361/) (

Source details

Licence: proprietary

Evidence quality: 22

Listed in planetary-computer public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/stac/v1/collections/esa-cci-lc
• https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/esa-cci-lc

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