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LandCover

Land cover features indicate the primary natural or artificial surface material covering a land area on the earth, including vegetation types like forests and crops, built environments like cities, and natural surfaces like wetlands or barren ground.

Land cover features relate to LandUse features in the following way: land cover is the physical thing covering the land, while land use is the human use to which the land is being put.

TODO: Explain relationship to Land features.

Fields

NameTypeDescription
bboxbbox (optional)An optional bounding box for the feature
geometrygeometryShape of the covered land area, which may be a polygon or multi-polygon.
Allowed geometry types: MultiPolygon, Polygon
idIdA feature ID. This may be an ID associated with the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) if—and-only-if the feature represents an entity that is part of GERS.
subtypeLandCoverSubtype
theme"base"
type"land_cover"
versionFeatureVersion

Examples

ColumnValue
idc347312d-012b-5e73-8bd3-a10d04b2981d
geometryPOLYGON ((-179.99877531181616 65.95172539425603, -179.99740705536922 65.95265577758867, -179.9975172...
themebase
typeland_cover
version0
sources[0].property
sources[0].datasetESA WorldCover
sources[0].record_idnull
sources[0].update_time2024-11-07T00:00:00.000Z
sources[0].confidencenull
sources[0].betweennull
subtypebarren
cartography.prominencenull
cartography.min_zoom8
cartography.max_zoom15
cartography.sort_key3