GLC Fcs30d Userguides
GLC Fcs30d Userguides
liuly@radi.ac.cn
Background
GLC_FCS30D is the first global fine land cover dynamic product at a 30-meter resolution that
adopts continuous change detection. It utilizes a refined classification system containing 35 land-cover
categories and covers the time span from 1985 to 2022. Before the year 2000, the update cycle was
every 5 years, while after 2000, it is updated annually. In specific, it developed by combining the
continuous change detection method, local adaptive updating models and the spatiotemporal
optimization algorithm from dense time-series Landsat imagery, and was validated to achieve an
overall accuracy of 80.88% (±0.27%) for the basic classification system 10 major land-cover types) and
73.24% (±0.30%) for the LCCS level-1 validation system (17 LCCS land-cover types).
Note: Each tile in the GLC_FCS30D was split into two files, and named as
‘GLC_FCS30D_19851995_5years_E/W**N/S**’ and ‘GLC_FCS30D_20002022_ E/W**N/S**’.
The former contains 3 bands and denotes the land-cover maps in 1985, 1990 and 1995, and the latter
has 23 bands and denotes the land-cover maps in 2000, 2001, 2002… 2021, 2022.
The fine classification system containing 35 land-cover sub-categories
If you plan to use our data in a scientific analysis paper, we strongly recommend contacting us in
advance to seek opinions and consider our contributions in the acknowledgments or as co-authors.
Citations
Zhang, X., Liu, L., Chen, X., Gao, Y., Xie, S., Mi, J., 2021. GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product
with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 13,
2753-2776 , https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2753-2021.
Zhang, X., Liu, L., Zhao, T., Chen, X., Lin, S., Wang, J., Mi, J., and Liu, W.: GWL_FCS30: a global
30 m wetland map with a fine classification system using multi-sourced and time-series remote sensing
imagery in 2020, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 265–293, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-265-2023, 2023.
Zhang, X., Liu, L., Zhao, T., Gao, Y., Chen, X., and Mi, J.: GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface
dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine
platform, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1831–1856, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1831-2022, 2022.