Indicator: Land Use and Land Cover
Status
Available on Project Basis
Description
Maps land into nine distinct categories using Dynamic World classification: water, trees, grass, flooded vegetation, crops, shrub & scrub, built-up areas, bare ground, and snow & ice.
Unit
Land cover classification labels and percentage coverage for each class
Temporal Resolution
Annual, available from June 2015
Spatial Resolution
10 meters
Data
Sentinel-2 satellite imagery providing multispectral optical data
Method
Uses deep learning models (Convolutional Neural Networks) trained on labeled Sentinel-2 images to classify pixels into land cover types.
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