From the barren Sahara to lush jungles, the first high-resolution map classifying land cover types on the entire African continent has been released. The map was created using a year’s worth of data from the Copernicus EU Sentinel-2A satellite.
At a resolution of 20 m per pixel, you can now explore African’s diverse landscapes from grasslands to croplands, water bodies to deserts.
Discover more on our website:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Africa_classified
