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Land cover● In mapWorldCover v200 (2021 release)

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10m global LULC)

Global 10m land-use / land-cover. The cleanest global complement to CDL.

What this is

Global 10m-resolution land-cover map from Sentinel-1 + Sentinel-2 fusion, 2021 epoch (v200). Eleven categorical classes (tree cover, shrubland, grassland, cropland, built-up, bare/sparse, snow, water, herbaceous wetland, mangroves, moss/lichen). Native-grain map overlay served via ESA's Terrascope WMTS — no auth, public PNG tiles in Google-compatible matrix set. Field-level (Mode B) cropland breakdown is the queued follow-up; see the coming-soon Sandbox tile and tracking issue.

Why we surface it

Outside the US, this is what lets UFFDA say 'this polygon is cropland' confidently. Pairs with FTW to give global queries a baseline land-cover answer. The map overlay is the first half; Mode B field-level attribution is queued.

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Free to use for any purpose, including commercial and AI training. Nothing's triggered until you share it.
Redistribute the data
Fine to use and redistribute, including commercially. One string attached: credit the original source wherever it shows up.
Republish a derivative
Build on it and republish freely, commercial or not. You must credit the original source in what you ship.
Build into a private product
Fine to build into a closed or commercial product. Attribution is still owed wherever the data is actually exposed to users.

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

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