Living Earth LCCS Documentation

The LivingEarth LCCS code provides an implementation of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) designed to be applied to Earth Observation (EO) data. It has been developed to generate land cover maps for Australia and Wales. The system takes multiple products and combines these through a series of decision trees to produce all classes described as part of LCCS v2, with some modifications where required to apply to EO data. The system is capable of ingesting products from OpenDataCube and any raster format which compatible using GDAL (local or remote) with the option to expand via plugins. Existing products can be read directly or products can be created from Analysis Ready Data (ARD), though the use of plugins and virtual products.

The Living Earth LCCS code is being developed by Geoscience Australia, Aberystwyth University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

• Introduction to LCCS
  • Dichotomous phase (Level 3)
  • Modular-hierarchical phase (Level 4)
• Quick Start Guide
  • Installation
  • Open Data Cube
  • The Config File
  • Running the classification
  • Plugins
• Variable Name Rules
  • General rules
  • Level 3 Classification
  • Level 4 Classification
  • Outputs
• Layer Values - Level 4 Classification
  • Level 4 Classification - FAO: Layer Values
  • Level 4 Classification - Modified version for Australia: Layer Values
  • Level 4 Classification - Modified version for Living Wales: Layer Values

Code Documentation

• Data Ingestion
  • Gridded Ingest
  • Table Ingest
• Data Ingest Plugins
  • Examples
• Level 3 Classification
• Level 4 Classification
• Change
  • Simple Change Detection
  • Observed Change
• Utilities
  • Gridded Classification
  • Change
• Data Export
  • Gridded Export