Sahel Land Cover OSO 2018

A land cover map of the Sahel region for the reference year 2018 produced by supervised classification of Sentinel-2 image time series and using the CGLS maps as reference data for supervision. The nomenclature is the following: tree cover:10<br> forest:100<br> evergreen needleleaf closed forest:111<br> evergreen broadleaf closed forest:112<br> deciduous needleleaf closed forest:113<br> deciduous broadleaf closed forest:114<br> closed forest mixed:115<br> closed forest unknown type:116<br> evergreen needleleaf open forest:121<br> evergreen broadleaf open forest:122<br> deciduous needleleaf open forest:123<br> deciduous broadleaf open forest:124<br> open forest mixed:125<br> open forest unknown type:126<br> shrubs:20<br> herbaceous vegetation:30<br> cropland:40<br> urban:50<br> bare / sparse vegetation:60<br> snow &amp; ice:70<br> permanent water bodies:80<br> temporary water bodies:81<br> herbaceous wetland:90<br> sea:200<br> continental land mass not classified:255 The map was produced using iota2, a free and open source platform for automatic map production using satellite image time series.