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Background reading, reference material and classification schemes to help you understand and work with Living Earth data.
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Environmental Descriptors
Browse the full set of environmental descriptors by category, or jump straight to a country's data.
Taxonomies
Reference classification schemes used for land cover, habitats and change.
Code & Repositories
Classification code, notebooks and repositories for working with Living Earth data.
Taxonomies
Land Cover
FAO's Land Cover Classification System (LCCS v2) — a consistent framework for classifying land cover from local to global scales, with over 12,000 possible classes.
Habitats
Country- and region-specific habitat classification, built on FAO LCCS land cover classes combined with local ecological context. Currently generated for Wales.
Change
A global taxonomy of 246 impact-pressure classes for describing and comparing observed environmental change, built on the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework.