This Validation Report describes in detail the quality of the satellite-based 100m Land Cover product of the global component of the Copernicus Land Service.

It includes assessments of yearly global land cover layers (2015-2019), assessment of change as well as comparison with the previous version using an independent validation dataset.

The related Product User Manual is the starting point for the reader and summarizes all aspects of the product (algorithm, quality, contents, format, etc).