The GlobCover Portal provides access to the results of the GlobCover project. GlobCover is an ESA initiative in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP. The GlobCover project has developed a service capable of delivering global composite and land cover maps using as input observations from the 300m MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission. The GlobCover service has been demonstrated over a period of 19 months [December 2004 - June 2006], for which a set of MERIS Full Resolution (FR) composites (bi-monthly and annual) and a Global Land Cover map are being produced.
The GlobCover composites are derived from a set of processing made on the MERIS FR images such as cloud detection, atmospheric correction, geolocalisation and re-mapping. The GlobCover Land Cover map is compatible with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS).

A set of GlobCover MERIS FR composites (Version 2) is available on the GlobCover Portal and can be downloaded from this website. This set includes:
- 10 bi-monthly reflectances composites for period December 2004 - June 2006
- 1 annual reflectance composite for year 2005

***The GlobCover Land Cover version V2.2 is now available HERE!***
The land cover product is available for download as a global mosaic and/or as a series of regional mosaics.
The maps are in geographic coordinates in a Plate-Caree projection (WGS84 geoid).
The new release clarifies the reported issues regarding the mapcode of some pixels by dividing the legend into global and regional.

First User Consultation Meeting was held at JRC, 20 June 2007

The first GlobCover user consultation meeting was held at JRC in Ispra, Italy, on 20 June 2007. It provided users a platform to discuss the quality of the first released GlobCover bimonthly global composites and how GlobCover products will be integrated into their work. Presentations made during the meeting are available on the DUE website, on the GlobCover project sheet, in the results section. Users are still encouraged to provide feedback on data access and product quality by email to due@esa.int.