Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS)
The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service provides among others geographical land cover (change), land use, and vegetation state information to a broad range of users. It supports applications in a variety of domains, such as spatial and urban planning, agriculture, and forest management, and consists of five main themes:
Systematic monitoring of vegetation indicators
This mainly comprises a series of qualified bio-geophysical products on the land surface status and evolution. The data are produced globally every ten days at a medium-range spatial resolution, complemented by a long-term time series. The data products are used to monitor vegetation, crops, water cycle, energy budget, and terrestrial cryosphere variables.Land cover and land use mapping
Produces land cover classifications at various levels of detail, both at pan-European and global level. At pan-European level, these classifications are complemented by detailed high-resolution layers on land cover characteristics, such as imperviousness, forests, grassland, water and wetness, and small woody features. At global level, the land cover mapping follows the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)’s modular-hierarchical Land Cover Classification System.Imagery and reference data
Comprise satellite image mosaic in high and very high resolutions and reference datasets. This includes satellite image mosaic from contributing missions covering Europe, as well as a Sentinel-2 global image mosaic production. In addition, it consists of reference datasets providing homogeneous pan-European coverage of key geospatial themes, such as hydrography and elevation.Thematic hot-spot mapping
Provides tailored and more detailed information on specific areas of interest, known as hot-spots. In the context of the Land Monitoring Service, these are prone to specific environmental challenges. Imagery and reference data provide satellite image mosaic at high and very high resolutions and reference datasets. This includes image mosaics from contributing missions covering the territory of Europe, as well as Sentinel-2 global image mosaics production. Additionally, it comprises reference datasets providing homogeneous pan-European coverage of key geospatial themes, such as hydrography and elevation.European Ground Motion Service
This service provides ground displacement measurements, including landslides and subsidence, as well as infrastructure deformation at millimetre scale.
Table 1 shows a comprehensive overview of the CLMS products and services, see the Copernicus Global Land Service website for more information on these products.
Table 1: Overview of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services.
| Portfolio category | Product name | Individual products |
|---|---|---|
| Systematic vegetation indicators monitoring | Snow and Ice | Fractional Snow Cover (FSC), Permanent Snow Line, River/Lake Ice |
| High Resolution Phenology | Various phenological indicators and seasonal trajectories | |
| Land Cover and Land Use Mapping | Corine Land Cover (CLC) | LCLU status and change |
| Corine Land Cover plus (CLC+) | CLC-backbone, CLC-core, CLC+ instance, CLC – legacy | |
| High Resolution Layers | Imperviousness, Forest, Grassland, Water & Wetness, Small Woody Features | |
| Thematic Hotspot Mapping | Urban Atlas | LCLU status and change |
| Riparian Zones | LCLU status and change | |
| Natura 2000 | LCLU status and change | |
| Coastal Zones | LCLU status and change | |
| Reference data | EU-DEM | EU-DEM, Slope, Aspect, Hillshade |
| EU-Hydro | Rivers, Inland waters, Coastline, Drainage network | |
| Image Mosaics | Very High Resolution (VHR) | |
| Ground Motion Service | Ortho product | East-West (horizontal) and up-down (vertical) deformation rates |