Agro-informatics

New land cover data for Syria

22/10/2026

This new data provides information on land cover in Syria for the year of 2024. The map is a categorical raster with a resolution of approximately 10 m and 11 land-cover classes. It has been produced using a Random Forest classifier trained on Collect Earth Online (CEO) and validated with reference points and AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embedding V1 (annual) 2024 features.

More about the app: https://data.apps.fao.org/?lang=en&share=f-119f5d03-1dce-4388-99c2-c7a1bc215a5c