Terrestrial vegetation communities across Antarctica are characteristically sparse, presenting a challenge for mapping their occurrence using remote sensing at the continent scale. At present there is no continent-wide baseline record of Antarctic vegetation, and large-scale area estimates remain unquantified. With local vegetation distribution shifts now apparent and further predicted in response to environmental change across Antarctica, it is critical to establish a baseline to document these changes. Here we present a 10 m-resolution map of photosynthetic life in terrestrial and cryospheric habitats across the entire Antarctic continent, maritime archipelagos and islands south of 60° S. Using Sentinel-2 imagery (2017–2023) and spectral indices, we detected terrestrial green vegetation (vascular plants, bryophytes, green algae) and lichens across ice-free areas, and cryospheric green snow algae across coastal snowpacks. The detected vegetation occupies a total area of 44.2 km², with over half contained in the South Shetland Islands, altogether contributing just 0.12% of the total ice-free area included in the analysis. Due to methodological constraints, dark-coloured lichens and cyanobacterial mats were excluded from the study. This vegetation map improves the geospatial data available for vegetation across Antarctica, and provides a tool for future conservation planning and large-scale biogeographic assessments.

南极洲的陆地植被群落特征稀疏，这给利用遥感在大陆尺度上绘制其分布地图带来了挑战。目前，南极植被没有全大陆的基线记录，大范围的面积估计仍然没有量化。由于南极洲各地的环境变化，当地植被分布的变化现已明显并进一步预测，因此建立记录这些变化的基线至关重要。在这里，我们展示了整个南极大陆、南纬 60° 以南的海洋群岛和岛屿的陆地和冰冻圈栖息地的 10 米分辨率光合生命地图。使用 Sentinel-2 图像（2017-2023）和光谱指数，我们检测到了陆地和冰冻圈栖息地的光合生命。无冰地区的绿色植被（维管植物、苔藓植物、绿藻）和地衣，以及沿海积雪的冰冻圈绿色雪藻。检测到的植被总面积为44.2 km ² ，其中一半以上位于南设得兰群岛，仅占分析中无冰总面积的0.12%。由于方法学的限制，深色地衣和蓝藻垫被排除在研究之外。该植被地图改进了整个南极洲植被的可用地理空间数据，并为未来的保护规划和大规模生物地理评估提供了工具。