Dataset: FAOSTAT LC Land Cover

FAOSTAT Land Cover
Published: 2024-03-09
Data

Dataset tables

Download entire dataset
Raw format

Columns

Supplemental Files

Any supplemental files, not containing data.

Columns

Description File Details
Licence
This file contains dataset licencing information.
This is a generated file.
Readme
The file contains basic information about the dataset.
This is a generated file.
About

The FAOSTAT domain Land Cover under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS (2001–2021); b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps (1992–2020) produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization for the period 2015–2019), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) 4) The WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency —available for the years 2020 and 2021, produced at 10m resolution.

Discussion

Discussion (0)

Log in to comment!

Classifications
Analytical Capacities
Simple software

Simple software applications such as spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel, Apache OpenOffice Calc) are sufficient to analyse the data.

Regulatory Standards
None

No regulatory standard applied.

Technical Standards
Fully FAO SQA compliant

The FAO Statistics Quality Assurance Framework

Reference

  1. Anonymous 2014 The FAO statistics quality assurance framework. [2024-3-8] www.fao.org
Properties

Unique Identifier

[FSTTL93.0.0]

EUPH IRI

https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/dataset-discovery/FSTTL93.0.0

Status

Quality Validated

Peer review

No peer review was requested.

DOI

No DOI available.

Published

2024-03-09

Access rights

Open

Regions, the data was collected in

Belgique/België, Danmark, Deutschland, Eesti, España, France, Hrvatska, Ireland, Italia, Latvija, Liechtenstein, Lietuva, Luxembourg, Magyarország, Malta, Nederland, Norge, Polska, Portugal, România, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera, Shqipëria, Slovenija, Slovensko, Srbija/Сpбија, Suomi/Finland, Sverige, Türkiye, Ísland, Česko, Ελλάδα , Κύπρος , България , Северна Македонија, Црна Гора
Citation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2024 FAOSTAT Land Cover. EU Pollinator Hub. [2025-03-26] app.pollinatorhub.eu
Share
Contact
No public contact details available.
You need to login in order to be able to send a direct message to Author
Dataset rating
You need to be registered in order to give a rating. No ratings available yet.
Metrics

Total views

613

Total downloads

17