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: 1
- diffuse frames: 2
- ind and com zones: 3
- road surfaces: 4
- rapeseed: 5
- straw cereals: 6
- protein crops: 7
- soya: 8
- sunflower: 9
- corn: 10
- rice: 11
- tubers/roots: 12
- grasslands: 13
- orchards: 14
- vines: 15
- hardwood forests: 16
- coniferous forests: 17
- lawns: 18
- woody moors: 19
- mineral surfaces: 20
- beaches and dunes: 21
- glaciers or snow: 22
- water: 23
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014 maps using Landsat-5 databases are also available.
Contact
Jordi Inglada
Cesbio
ResearchGate
@J.Inglada
Contributions
Format
The 2018 data (Raster and Vector) 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