| Land cover types | Code | Description |
| Bare land | Bl | Areas of land that are poorly covered by vegetation due to erosion, overgrazing, cultivation, mining area, etc. | Cultivated land | Cl | Lands used for agriculture, horticulture, and gardens, including paddy fields, irrigated and dry farmland, vegetation and fruit gardens, etc. | Forest land | Fl | Lands covered with trees, with vegetation cover over 30%, including deciduous and coniferous forests, and sparse woodland with cover 10–30%, etc. | Grass land | Gl | Lands covered by natural grass with cover over 10%, etc. | Urban | Ur | Lands modified by human activities, including all kinds of habitation, residential, commercial, industrial, transportation facilities, interior urban green zones, etc. | Water | Wa | Water bodies in the land area, including river, lake, reservoir, fish pond, lands covered by temporally snow, glacier and icecap, etc. | Wetland | Wl | Lands covered with wetland plants and water bodies, including inland marsh, lake marsh, river floodplain wetland, forest/shrub wetland, peat bogs, mangrove and salt marsh, etc. |
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