Table 2 Main characteristics of the 15 global Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) products available in Google Earth Engine (GEE) that were combined to find consensus in the global distribution of 29 main LULC classes.

From: Sentinel2GlobalLULC: A Sentinel-2 RGB image tile dataset for global land use/cover mapping with deep learning

LULC product

Satellite or Spaceborne

Resolution

Used years

Reference

P1: MCD12Q1.006 MODIS LULC

Type Yearly Global 500 m

LULC Type1: Annual International Geosphere-Biosphere

Programme (IGBP) classification (version 6)

Aqua, Terra

500 meters

2017 to 2019

65

P2: MCD12Q1.006 MODIS LULC

Type Yearly Global 500 m

LULC Type 2: Annual University of Maryland (UMD) classification (version 6)

Aqua, Terra

500 meters

2017 to 2019

65

P3: MCD12Q1.006 MODIS LULC

Type Yearly Global 500 m

LULC Type 3: Annual Leaf Area Index (LAI) classification (version 6)

Aqua, Terra

500 meters

2017 to 2019

65

P4: MCD12Q1.006 MODIS LULC

Type Yearly Global 500 m

LULC Type 4: Annual BIOME-Biogeochemical Cycles (BGC) classification (version 6)

Aqua, Terra

500 meters

2017 to 2019

65

P5: MCD12Q1.006 MODIS LULC

Type Yearly Global 500 m

LULC Type 5: Annual Plant Functional Types (PFT) classification (version 6)

Aqua, Terra

500 meters

2017 to 2019

65

P6: Copernicus Global LULC Layers: CGLS-LC100 collection 3 (version 3.0.1)

PROBA-V

100 meters

2017 to 2019

66

P7: Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) Tree Cover Multi-Year Global 30 m (version 3.0)

Multi-satellite

30 meters

2015

67

P8: GlobCover: Global LULC Map (version 2.0)

ENVISAT

300 meters

2009

ESA 2010 and UCLouvain

P9: GFSAD1000: Cropland Extent 1 km Multi-Study Crop Mask, Global Food-Support Analysis Data (version 0.1)

Multi-satellite

1000 meters

2010

68

P10: Global PALSAR-2/PALSAR Forest/Non-Forest Map (version fnf)

ALOS, ALOS 2

25 meters

2017

69

P11: Hansen Global Forest Change (version 1.7)

Landsat 8

1 arc seconds

2000 to 2019

70

P12: Global Forest Canopy Height (version 2005)

Lidar

30 arc seconds

2005

71

P13: JRC Yearly Water Classification History (version 1.2)

Landsat (5,7,8)

30 meters

2017 to 2019

72

P14: JRC Global Surface Water Mapping Layers (version 1.2)

Landsat(5,7,8)

30 meters

1984 to 2019

72

P15: Tsinghua FROM-GLC year of change to impervious surface(version 10)

Landsat

30 meters

1985 to 2019

73

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