ESA WorldCover

10 m global land-cover maps (2020/2021) + annual Sentinel composites. Good for biome masks, foliage density, and procedural biome painting — not a heightmap.

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Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Commercial use: commercial OK
Credit: Required
Status: active: License spot-checked at the source; the entry carries dated evidence.
Verified: 2026-08-24 (32d ago)
Formats: GeoTIFF

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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data / ESA WorldCover. Suggested format; CC-BY-4.0 requires a credits-screen source link.

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Free via Terrascope / AWS Open Data. Attribute per CC-BY-4.0 and cite the dataset/paper as on the data-access page.
2020 vs 2021 use different algorithm versions — don’t treat year-to-year diffs as pure real change.

Evidence

Live data-access License (2026-08-24): “provided free of charge, without restriction of use… Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”

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ESA WorldCover

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