Land & Carbon Lab

Dynamic World

Near-real-time (NRT) land use/land cover (LULC) dataset at 10 meter resolution that includes nine classes, pixel-level class probabilities, and labeling information.

Created
Oct 10, 2024
Last Updated
Oct 10, 2024
Caution:
  • Dynamic World data is intended to be used through Google Earth Engine given the rapid update frequency and large number of Sentinel-2 scenes collected and processed daily.
  • To select only pixels that confidently belong to a Dynamic World class, it is recommended to mask Dynamic World outputs by thresholding the estimated "probability" of the top-1 prediction.
  • Performance varies spatially and temporally as a function of both the quality of S2 cloud masking and variability in land cover and condition.
  • Dynamic World tends to perform most strongly in temperate and tree-dominated biomes. Arid shrublands and rangelands were observed to present the greatest source of confusion specifically between crops and shrubs.
  • Single-date classifications are highly dependent on accurate cloud and cloud shadow masking. Though the authors implemented a fairly conservative masking process that includes several existing products and algorithms, missed clouds are typically misclassified as Snow & Ice and missed shadows as Water.
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