ClimaLens — Global Land Cover

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Global Land Cover — Current State Global · 2020 · ESA WorldCover · 10 m

A rotating 3D view of global land cover for 2020 at 10 m resolution, from ESA's Sentinel-1/2-derived WorldCover map. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom — green is tree cover, yellow and tan are grassland and cropland, grey is bare ground or built-up, blue is water, and white marks snow and ice.

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Tree cover

Shrubland

Grassland

Cropland

Built-up

Bare / sparse vegetation

Snow and ice

Water

Herbaceous wetland

Mangroves

Moss and lichen

ESA WorldCover 10m v100 · 2020 · Sentinel-1/2 · CC-BY 4.0

Land Cover Change — 2001 to 2024 Global · 2001–2024 · MODIS IGBP · 500 m

Annual land cover classification from MODIS satellite data. Dark greens are forest — watch the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia as cropland and urban areas expand across two decades.

24 years of satellite imagery

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