Download land cover data
get_esa_10m.RdThis function allows you to download land cover data from the ESA WorldCover.
Arguments
- aoi_sf
(
character) an sf_object which defines the area of interest (AOI). an sf object can represent any geographical area, such as a country, state, or custom boundary.- year
the Copernicus Global Land Service has different versions of its land cover data for different years. As of now, the available years are: 2020: This corresponds to the v100 product version, and 2021: This corresponds to the v200 product version.
- output_folder
specifies the directory where data files will be saved. The default value for output_folder is ".", which represents the current working directory.
References
WorldCover 2020 v100
Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571936
WorldCover 2021 v200
Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., Daems, D., De Keersmaecker, W., Brockmann, C., Kirches, G., Wevers, J., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Lesiv, M., Herold, M., Tsendbazar, N.E., Xu, P., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2022. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254221
ESA WorldCover project 2020 and 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020 and 2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium With year either 2020 or 2021 for the WorldCover 2020 and 2021 map, respectively.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(sf)
nc = st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
get_esa_10m(nc, year = 2021, output_folder = ".")
} # }