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Land Cover - Local areas

<p>This dataset provides land cover estimates for OECD Local Areas. </p>

<p style="color: #0965c1; font-weight: bold;"> The data is organized at Teritorial Level 2 (TL2). To visualize the data at Local Area level, click on the corresponding TL2 indicator. </p>

<b>The full dataset can be downloaded here: <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=56512f84-b55f-4e92-b7ff-e1c2822072ee">Download Microdata </a></b>

<h3>Data sources and methodology</h3>

<div class="text-gray-500 px-6"> The land use and land cover indicators are estimated from the WorldCover global dataset. WorldCover is a global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2021 based on both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. WorldCover is used as it provides harmonised, globally consistent coverage at very fine spatial resolution (10 m), enabling the production of comparable subnational indicators on land cover.

These estimates may differ from official subnational land cover statistics due to differences in methodologies, such as top down remote-sensing based estimation versus bottom up cadastral or administrative data, along with differences in satellite imagery sources, spatial resolution, and model accuracy used to detect and classify land cover types.

The land cover classes available are:

<ul> <li>Bare area - includes barren / sparse vegetation, moss and lichen, snow and ice.</li> <li>Inland water</li> <li>Natural and semi-natural vegetated land - includes trees, shrubland, grassland</li> <li>Agricultural area</li> <li>Wetland - includes herbaceous wetland and mangroves</li> <li>Total built-up area</li> </ul>

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<h3>Further information</h3> <ul> <li> <a href=https://localdataportal.oecd.org/>OECD Local Data Portal </a> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-regions-and-cities-at-a-glance-2024_f42db3bf-en.html/>OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance </a> </li> </ul> <p align="justify">For questions and/or comments, please email <a href="mailto:CitiesStat@oecd.org">CitiesStat@oecd.org</a>