Data for "LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION FROM A MAPPING PERSPECTIVE: PIXELWISE SUPERVISION IN THE DEEP LEARNING ERA"

Contents

clc_maps.zip contains the dataset.

LICENSE.txt describes the usage terms of the maps.

The maps contained in clc_maps.zip follow the naming convention of BigEarthNet [1], i.e. each sample of BigEarthNet has a corresponding pixel-level label map in the dataset.

[1] G. Sumbul, M. Charfuelan, B. Demir, and V. Markl, “Bigearthnet: A large-scale benchmark archive for remote sensing image understanding,” in IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2019, pp. 5901–5904.

Description

The original shape file (link) was altered by reprojecting the shape file onto the coordinate reference system (CRS) of the respective BigEarthNet sample images to ensure pixel synchronicity. Afterwards, the shapes present in the sample CRS are rasterized by burning a linearly increasing class index which replaces the textual CLC nomenclature. The class IDs and their corresponding class names are presented in the following section. 

Classes

Class ID - Corine Land Cover 2018 class name
1 - Continuous urban fabric
2 - Discontinuous urban fabric
3 - Industrial or commercial units
4 - Road and rail networks and associated land
5 - Port areas
6 - Airports
7 - Mineral extraction sites
8 - Dump sites
9 - Construction sites
10 - Green urban areas
11 - Sport and leisure facilities
12 - Non-irrigated arable land
13 - Permanently irrigated land
14 - Rice fields
15 - Vineyards
16 - Fruit trees and berry plantations
17 - Olive groves
18 - Pastures
19 - Annual crops associated with permanent crops
20 - Complex cultivation patterns
21 - Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation
22 - Agro-forestry areas
23 - Broad-leaved forest
24 - Coniferous forest
25 - Mixed forest
26 - Natural grasslands
27 - Moors and heathland
28 - Sclerophyllous vegetation
29 - Transitional woodland-shrub
30 - Beaches, dunes, sands
31 - Bare rocks
32 - Sparsely vegetated areas
33 - Burnt areas
34 - Glaciers and perpetual snow
35 - Inland marshes
36 - Peat bogs
37 - Salt marshes
38 - Salines
39 - Intertidal flats
40 - Water courses
41- Water bodies
42 - Coastal lagoons
43 - Estuaries
44 - Sea and ocean
48 - NODATA
49 - UNCLASSIFIED LAND SURFACE
50 - UNCLASSIFIED WATER BODIES 

More details about the CLC classes and conventions can be found in the CLC nomenclature guide (Link).

Attribution

If you find this work useful please consider citing:

Wilhelm, T.; Koßmann, D. LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION FROM A MAPPING PERSPECTIVE: PIXELWISE SUPERVISION IN THE DEEP LEARNING ERA. In Proceedings of the IGARSS 2021—2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, 12 – 16 July 2021; to appear.

License

The generated maps are based on data from the Copernicus program, which are subject to the terms described here:
https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover/clc2018?tab=metadata