Project: RUSSIAN LAND COVER
Project: RUSSIAN LAND COVERThe Russian Land Cover database consists of land use and land cover satellite-based map products of Russia and of the Former Soviet Union. The GIS products included provide scientists and resource managers with the information needed in the management, characterization, and measurement of Russian forest resources as well as the land use and land cover data needed for Russian land management.
Data Set: RLC Vegetative Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1990
Data Set: RLC Vegetative Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1990This dataset is a 1:4 million scale vegetation map for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. Three hundred seventy-three cover classes are distinguished, of which nearly 145 are forest cover-related classes. Stone and Schlesinger (1993) digitized the map Vegetation of the Soviet Union, 1990 (Institute of Geography, 1990).
Detailed Documentation: Data Set Reference Document
Companion Files:
- RLC_veg_cover_1990.pdf
- vmap90_legend.dbf
- vmap90_legend.txt
- vmap90_method.doc
- vmap90_method.pdf
- vmap90_projection.txt
- vmap90_readme.txt
Citation:
Citation:Stone, T. A, and P. Schlesinger. 2003. RLC Vegetative Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1990. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/700
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