Data – Exploring CORINE Land Cover Data Set Equivalents for Global Use

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I am looking for the equivalent of CORINE land cover data sets (100 meters) for the rest of the world; not merely urban areas but any area in general. I see sousa's question unanswered so I thought I will ask again.

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The only high resolution global land cover that I know is the one done by the PR of China. In Europe they seemed to use CORINE as an ancillary data, so it is difficult to judge the consistency accross the world, but it has a spatial resolution of 30 m.

http://www.globallandcover.com/GLC30Download/index.aspx

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

You also have the ESA dataset at 300 m.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/10/Land_cover_2010

http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php

And for thematic datasets there are the global forest Watch (30m) and the PALSAR forest/non forest (25 m).

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