all data is taken online, but also can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7367872
01:20 - what is Global LandCover data?
02:00 - legend labels and pixel values in table
03:20 - RGB colors in legend table
03:50 - styling this raster which represents discrete classes/categories.
07:40 - create a color-scale file to import in QGIS legend automatically (see also https://www.cirgeo.unipd.it/didattica/GIS/01x_access_geodata.html#Exercise_4 )
09:50 - modify the excel table to reflect the same structure of the QGIS  and
11:50 - copy/paste to text file with QGIS Color Map and load color map to QGIS
12:45 - trasparency / blending mode to combine hillshade DEM (virtual 3D representation) with colors from Global LandCover
14:02 - MASKING
14:25 - simple masking example in excel 
18:15 - final mask creation using raster calculator