esalandcover: ESA Copernicus Global Land Cover layer

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ESA Copernicus Global Land Cover layer

Description

This 100 meter spatial resolution land cover resource is published by Buchhorn et al. (2020) "Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers—Collection 2". The resource represents the actual surface cover of ground available annually for the period 2015 to 2019. The cell values range from 0 to 200, representing total of 23 discrete classifications from ESA.

Usage

get_esalandcover(years = 2015L:2019L)

Arguments

years

A numeric vector indicating the years for which to make the resource available.

Details

This function mimics the behavior of the original get_esalandcover() function by downloading the parts of the global raster that correspond to the 20° x 20° tiles used previously. The files are named the same as before. This allows other code that uses this resource to remain unchanged.

Value

A function that returns an sf footprint object.

Source

https://zenodo.org/records/3939050

References

Buchhorn, M., Lesiv, M., Tsendbazar, N.-E., Herold, M., Bertels, L., & Smets, B. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers - Collection 2. Remote Sensing, 12(6), 1044. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("doi:10.3390/rs12061044")}

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