Table 1 Dynamic World Land Use Land Cover (LULC) classification taxonomy.
From: Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping
Class ID | LULC Type | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
0 | Water | • Water is present in the image. • Contains little-to-no sparse vegetation, no rock outcrop, and no built-up features like docks. • Does not include land that can or has previously been covered by water. | • Rivers • Ponds & Lakes • Ocean • Flooded Salt Pans |
1 | Trees | • Any significant clustering of dense vegetation, typically with a closed or dense canopy. • Taller and darker than surrounding vegetation (if surrounded by other vegetation). | • Wooded vegetation • Dense green shrubs • Cluster of dense, tall vegetation within savannas • Plantations such as apples, bananas, citrus, and rubber • Swamp (dense/tall vegetation with no obvious water) • Any mix of the above • Any burned areas of the above |
2 | Grass | • Open areas covered in homogenous grasses with little to no taller vegetation. • Other homogenous areas of grass-like vegetation (blade-type leaves) that appear different from trees and shrubland. • Wild cereals and grasses with no obvious human plotting (i.e. not a structured field). | • Natural meadows and fields with sparse or no tree cover • Open savanna with little to no tree cover • Parks, golf courses, human manicured lawns, including large fields in urban settings like soccer and baseball. • Tree cut-throughs for power lines, gas etc. • Pastures • Reeds and marshes with no obvious flooding |
3 | Flooded vegetation | • Areas of any type of vegetation with obvious intermixing of water. • Do not assume an area is flooded if flooding is observed in another image. • Seasonally flooded areas that are a mix of grass/shrub/trees/bare ground. | • Flooded mangroves • Emergent vegetation |
4 | Crops | • Human planted/plotted cereals, grasses, and crops. | • Corn, wheat, soy, etc. • Hay and fallow plots of structured land |
5 | Shrub & Scrub | • Mix of small clusters of plants or individual plants dispersed on a landscape that shows exposed soil and rock. • Scrub-filled clearings within dense forests that are clearly not taller than trees. Appear grayer/browner due to less dense leaf cover. | • Moderate to sparse cover of bushes, shrubs, and tufts of grass • Savannas with very sparse grasses, trees, or other plants |
6 | Built area | • Clusters of human-made structures or individual very large human-made structures. • Contained industrial, commercial, and private building, and the associated parking lots. • A mixture of residential buildings, streets, lawns, trees, isolated residential structures or buildings surrounded by vegetative land covers. • Major road and rail networks outside of the predominant residential areas. • Large homogeneous impervious surfaces, including parking structures, large office buildings, and residential housing developments containing clusters of cul-de-sacs. | • Cluster of houses, can include smalls lawns or small patches of trees can be included • Dense villages, town, and cityscape (buildings and roads together) • Clusters of paved roads and large highways • Asphalt and other human-made surfaces |
7 | Bare ground | • Areas of rock or soil containing very sparse to no vegetation. • Large areas of sand and deserts with no to little vegetation. • Large individual or dense networks of dirt roads. | • Exposed rock • Exposed soil • Desert and sand dunes • Dry salt flats and salt pans • Dried lake bottoms • Mines • Large empty lots in urban areas |
8 | Snow & Ice | • Large homogenous areas of thick snow or ice, typically only in mountain areas or highest latitudes. • Large homogenous areas of snowfall. | • Glaciers • Permanent snowpack • Snowfall |
