Annual land cover maps of Germany based on Sentinel-2 MSI Level 3A (WASP) data

Overview:
This annual land cover product is available for the years 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 for the whole of Germany. It was generated based on Sentinel-2 MSI L3A WASP Data provided by DLR (https://geoservice.dlr.de/data-assets/4hcq6dgkj648.html). For a complete description of the classification procedure please refer to
Riembauer, G.; Weinmann, A.; Xu, S.; Eichfuss, S.; Eberz, C.; Neteler, M.: Germany-wide Sentinel-2 based land cover classification and change detection for settlement and infrastructure monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2021 conference on Big Data from Space (doi:10.2760/125905), 2021.

Source data:

• Satellite data
  • German Aerospace Center (DLR): Sentinel-2 MSI - Level 3A (MAJA/WASP Tiles) - Germany, DOI: 10.15489/4hcq6dgkj648
• Auxiliary data
  • European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, European Environment Agency (EEA), Copernicus High Resolution Layer: Imperviousness Status Map, 2018 (https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/imperviousness/status-maps/imperviousness-density-2018)
  • OpenStreetMap Planet dump retrieved from https://planet.osm.org, https://www.openstreetmap.org
  • S2GLC Map of Europe (R. Malinowski, S. Lewiński, M. Rybicki, E. Gromny, M. Jenerowicz, M. Krupiński, A. Nowakowski, C. Wojtkowski, M. Krupiński, E. Krätzschmar, and P. Schauer, "Automated Production of a Land Cover/Use Map of Europe Based on Sentinel-2 Imagery," Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 21, p. 3523, 2020.)

File naming:
classification_map_germany_[year].tif example: classification_map_germany_2020.tif

Projection + EPSG code:
WGS 84 / UTM zone 32N (EPSG: 32632)

Spatial extent:
north: 55:03:38.646483N
south: 47:08:24.738401N
west: 5:33:47.816647E
east: 15:34:24.108516E

Spatial resolution:
10 m

Format: COG (Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF)

Pixel values:
10: forest
20: low vegetation
30: water
40: built-up
50: bare soil
60: agriculture

Temporal coverage:
Years 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021

Software used:
GRASS 7.8, actinia

Original dataset license:
The Sentinel-2 level 3A data produced and distributed by DLR are based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 level 1C data, which are subject to the following license: https://theia.cnes.fr/atdistrib/documents/TC_Sentinel_Data_31072014.pdf One of the following citations is mandatory for using the provided MAJA/WASP L3A product: German Aerospace Center (DLR): Sentinel-2 MSI - Level 3A (MAJA/WASP Tiles) - Germany, DOI: 10.15489/4hcq6dgkj648 or Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by DLR, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Processed by:
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (https://www.mundialis.de/)