Full 
resolution land cover map showing a portion of Northern Europe.

Welcome to the distribution site for the University of Maryland's 1km Global Land Cover product. For a full description of the data set, please see:

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., and Sohlberg, R., Global land cover classification at 1km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach, International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press).

This product was produced at the Laboratory for Global Remote Sensing Studies, housed within the Geography Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Link to web site for UMD 8km global land cover product.

Link to web site for other UMD land cover activities.