Satellite Images of Earth: In High Definition

Earth’s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors.
Scientists hope to use the new GlobCover project by ESA, in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, to manage ecosystems, model climate change impacts, and monitor land-cover trends.
"The GlobCover system is a great step forward in our capacities to automatically produce new global land cover products with a finer resolution and a more detailed thematic content than ever achieved in the past," Frédéric Achard of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) said.
Head over to the ESA Portal site to check it out.