Land cover research using data from the Space Research Centre
The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN) has developed methods for automatically preparing detailed land cover maps based on Copernicus satellite data. This has created a new source of data for public statistics. The maps include 13 of the most significant classes, including agricultural areas, forests, built-up areas, marshes, bogs. As many as 15,000 images from Sentinel-2 satellites were used to develop the maps. The land cover classification for the entire territory of Poland in 2019-2023 is available at https://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/. We are currently working on implementing these solutions in surveys conducted by the Statistics Poland.
