Corine Land Cover Change CLC+ Backbone 2018 (raster 10 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Feb. 2023

This metadata refer to the 'Corine Land Cover + Backbone' (CLC+ Backbone) which is a spatially detailed, large scale, Earth Observation-based land cover inventory. The CLC+ Backbone Raster Product is a 10m pixel-based land cover map based on Sentinel satelitte time series from July 2017 to June 2019. For each pixel it shows the dominant land cover among the 11 basic land cover classes. Thematic pixel values: 1: Sealed 2: Woody – needle leaved trees 3: Woody – Broadleaved deciduous trees 4: Woody – Broadleaved evergreen trees 5: Low-growing woody plants (bushes, shrubs) 6: Permanent herbaceous 7: Periodically herbaceous 8: Lichens and mosses 9: Non- and sparsely-vegetated 10: Water 11: Snow and ice 254: outside area 255: No data The product has a three years update cycle and is available for the 2018 reference year.