The European Space Agency has released the WorldCover 2021 map based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 constellations with 11 classes, 10m resolution and 77% accuracy independently validated.
Open-data
- Here is a list of radar and optical satellite datasets for ship detection, classification, semantic segmentation and instance segmentation tasks.
- MetaEarth lets you download remote sensing data from any provider using a single config. Programmatic API usage is also available. However, the project is still very much under development.
- CoastSat is an open-source software toolkit that enables users to obtain time-series of shoreline position at any coastline worldwide from more than 30 years of publicly available satellite imagery.
- This repository contains a large list of DEM data sources, portals, information about various datasets and products, and more.
- Landsat has been collecting information about Earth since 1972. The USGS Landsat archive now spans 50 years with over 10.3 million scenes. Learn more about downloading Landsat data here.
- The WorldStrat dataset includes nearly 10,000 km² of free high-resolution satellite imagery of unique locations: from agriculture to ice caps, from forests to multiple urbanization densities.
- Here is a global downscaled climate data product spanning multiple downscaling methods (source code included), alongside an interactive mapping tool for inspecting, exploring, and comparing the data.
- This book represents up-to-date comprehensive review of theory and techniques to validate land use cover information. Check it out here.
