Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2753-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2753-2021
Data description paper
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15 Jun 2021
Data description paper |  | 15 Jun 2021

GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery

Xiao Zhang, Liangyun Liu, Xidong Chen, Yuan Gao, Shuai Xie, and Jun Mi

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Over past decades, a lot of global land-cover products have been released; however, these still lack a global land-cover map with a fine classification system and spatial resolution simultaneously. In this study, a novel global 30 m landcover classification with a fine classification system for the year 2015 (GLC_FCS30-2015) was produced by combining time series of Landsat imagery and high-quality training data from the GSPECLib on the Google Earth Engine computing platform.
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