CONSISTENT GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPS FOR CLIMATE MODELLING COMMUNITIES: CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ESA’ LAND COVER CCI

摘要

Led by the European Space Agency, the ClimaternChange Initiative land cover project focuses on the landrncover observed as an Essential Climate Variable.rnConsultation mechanisms were established with thernclimate modelling community in order to identify itsrnspecific needs in terms of satellite-based global landrncover products. Key finding was the needs for stablernland cover data and a dynamic component in form ofrntime-series. An innovative land cover concept isrnproposed, along with an new global land cover mappingrnapproach, based on multi-year earth observationrndatasets. The corresponding products are presented,rnwhich consist of three successive and consistent globalrnLC maps centred to the epochs 2000, 2005 and 2010.