- "description": "Land cover (LC) is defined by FAO as the observed physical cover of the Earth surface. It includes the vegetation and human-made infrastructures, like water, ice, rock, forest or urban areas. Its assessment and the monitoring of its dynamics are of extreme importance for the correct estimation of Earth radiation budget. Moreover, LC is correlated to land use and by proxy allows the study of how human activities impact on the Climate. Land Cover has a key role on surface energy, water and carbon fluxes variables. Moreover, Land cover change has an impact on radiative, aerodynamic, evaporative properties, carbon storage with different effects on surface temperature and precipitation.\r\n\r\nThe CCI High Resolution Land Cover project has developed regional time series of land-cover maps based on multitemporal and multisensor satellite observations in the visibile, infrared and microwave wavelength using Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Landsat 4-5-7, ASAR, ERS-1 and ERS-2 data. The land cover types shown are based on the UN Land Cover Classification System (LLCCS).\r\n\r\nThe project will focus primarily on three areas:\r\n\r\nSouth America (Amazon forest)\r\nWest Africa (Sahel band)\r\nWestern Siberia.\n\n**Variable Shown:** Land cover class\r\n\n**Time Span:** 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005,\r\n2010, 2015, 2019 \r\n\n**Temporal resolution:** yearly \r\n\n**Geographic Extent:** Siberia (Northern Siberia region), Amazonia (Eastern Amazonas region), Africa (Eastern Sahel region) \r\n\n**Spatial Resolution:** 30m \r\n\n**Version:** 1.2 \r\n\r\n[ESA High Resolution Land Cover Climate Change Initiative Project website](https://climate.esa.int/projects/high-resolution-land-cover/) \r\n[Data in the Open Data Portal](https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b057708eec1042238fb333ab02ec772e)\r\n\r\n\n**Detailed Legend:** \r\n<style>\r\n .dot {\r\n height: 10px;\r\n width: 10px;\r\n border-radius: 50%;\r\n display: inline-block;\r\n margin-right: 5px;\r\n vertical-align: middle;\r\n }\r\n</style>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"></div>No data<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(10, 0, 100);\"></div>Tree cover evergreen broadleaf<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(20, 0, 60);\"></div>Tree cover evergreen needleleaf<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(30 0 160);\"></div>Tree cover deciduous broadleaf<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(40, 40, 80);\"></div>Tree cover deciduous needleleaf<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(50, 150, 100);\"></div>Shrub cover evergreen<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(60 170 115);\"></div>Shrub cover deciduous<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(70, 255, 180);\"></div>Grasslands<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(80, 255, 255);\"></div>Croplands<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(90, 27, 203);\"></div>Woody vegetation acquatic or regularly flooded<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(100, 0, 220);\"></div>Grassland vegetation acquatic or regularly flooded<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(110, 255, 220);\"></div>Lichens and mosses<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(120, 255, 245);\"></div>Bare areas<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(130, 195, 20);\"></div>Built-up<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(140, 0, 70);\"></div>Open water<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(142, 0, 70);\"></div>Open water permanent<br>\r\n<div class=\"dot\" style=\"background: rgb(150, 255, 255);\"></div>Permanent snow and/or ice<br>"
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