Overview: This annual land cover product is available for the years 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 for the whole of Germany. It was generated based on Sentinel-2 MSI L3A WASP Data provided by DLR (https://geoservice.dlr.de/data-assets/4hcq6dgkj648.html). For a complete description of the classification procedure please refer to Riembauer, G.; Weinmann, A.; Xu, S.; Eichfuss, S.; Eberz, C.; Neteler, M.: Germany-wide Sentinel-2 based land cover classification and change detection for settlement and infrastructure monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2021 conference on Big Data from Space (doi:10.2760/125905), 2021. Source data: Satellite data German Aerospace Center (DLR): Sentinel-2 MSI - Level 3A (MAJA/WASP Tiles) - Germany, DOI: 10.15489/4hcq6dgkj648 Auxiliary data European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, European Environment Agency (EEA), Copernicus High Resolution Layer: Imperviousness Status Map, 2018 (https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/imperviousness/status-maps/imperviousness-density-2018) OpenStreetMap Planet dump retrieved from https://planet.osm.org, https://www.openstreetmap.org S2GLC Map of Europe (R. Malinowski, S. Lewiński, M. Rybicki, E. Gromny, M. Jenerowicz, M. Krupiński, A. Nowakowski, C. Wojtkowski, M. Krupiński, E. Krätzschmar, and P. Schauer, "Automated Production of a Land Cover/Use Map of Europe Based on Sentinel-2 Imagery," Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 21, p. 3523, 2020.) File naming: classification_map_germany_[year].tif example: classification_map_germany_2020.tif Projection + EPSG code: WGS 84 / UTM zone 32N (EPSG: 32632) Spatial extent: north: 55:03:38.646483N south: 47:08:24.738401N west: 5:33:47.816647E east: 15:34:24.108516E Spatial resolution: 10 m Format: COG (Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF) Pixel values: 10: forest 20: low vegetation 30: water 40: built-up 50: bare soil 60: agriculture Temporal coverage: Years 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 Software used: GRASS 7.8, actinia Original dataset license: The Sentinel-2 level 3A data produced and distributed by DLR are based on Copernicus Sentinel-2 level 1C data, which are subject to the following license: https://theia.cnes.fr/atdistrib/documents/TC_Sentinel_Data_31072014.pdf One of the following citations is mandatory for using the provided MAJA/WASP L3A product: German Aerospace Center (DLR): Sentinel-2 MSI - Level 3A (MAJA/WASP Tiles) - Germany, DOI: 10.15489/4hcq6dgkj648 or Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by DLR, licensed under CC-BY 4.0 Processed by: mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (https://www.mundialis.de/)

Acknowledgements: The research project "Inwertsetzung von Copernicus-Daten für die Raumbeobachtung" incora was funded within the mFUND research initiative by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (BMVI, funding reference number: 19F2079C)