Data access
Presentation
On 9 April 2018, Theia Land Cover SEC published the 2nd land use map of metropolitan France, automatically produced from Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B data. It updates the first land cover map of metropolitan France, which was produced in March 2017 using Sentinel-2 data from late 2015 to late 2016 and Landsat-8 data.
The 2018 reference year further refines the nomenclature previously proposed by the 2016 and 2017 maps from 17 to 23 classes:
- dense buildings
- diffuse frames
- ind and com zones
- road surfaces
- rapeseed
- straw cereals
- protein crops
- soya
- sunflower
- corn
- rice
- tubers/roots
- grasslands
- orchards
- vines
- hardwood forests
- coniferous forests
- lawns
- woody moors
- mineral surfaces
- beaches and dunes
- glaciers or snow
- water
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014 maps using Landsat-5 databases are also available.
Contact
Jordi Inglada
Cesbio
ResearchGate
@J.Inglada
Contributions
Format
The 2019 (Raster) as well as the 2018 (Raster and Vector) data are available on theia.cnes.fr
For older version, use the links below :
RASTER FORMAT
- Land Cover: 2017 (719 Mo), 2016 (711 Mo)
- nomenclature
- Validity Maps: 2017 (804 Mo), 2016 (476 Mo)
- Confidence Maps: 2017 (4.1 Go), 2016 (4.2 Go)
VECTOR FORMAT
The product is cut according to the administrative limits of the French departments and generated a zip archive containing the 4 files that make up the “ESRI Shapefile” format. Data can be downloaded from URLs such as:
- 2017 : http://osr-cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/echangeswww/TheiaOSO/vecteurs_2017/departe…
- 2016 : http://osr-cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/echangeswww/TheiaOSO/vecteurs_2016/departe…
in which XX corresponds to the number of the department (09, 31, etc.).
Links
For more information, see http://osr-cesbio.ups-tlse.fr