Reference Data Portal for Global Land Cover Maps (GOFC-GOLD, ESA, CEOS)

Data provided by:Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD), European Space Agency (ESA), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
Data accessibility:export data
Link to the data:
File type:dbf, shp, shp, shp
Data type:land use, land cover data
Hazard:Forest Fire, Drought, Extreme Temperature
Disaster cycle phase:Disaster Risk Management, Response, Recovery
Satellites and Sensors:Aqua, Terra, SPOT 4, Suomi NPP
Spatial coverage:Global
Spatial resolution:1 km
Temporal coverage:Archive
Content dates:2000 - 2013
Costs:free
Contact:Look for the "Contact" link on the webpage
Restrictions/ Citation of the dataset:

Important note: this dataset is suitbable for training, not for validation since the samples do not follow a probability sampling scheme.