Overview
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1056 |
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Version | 2 |
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Published | 2011-12-29 |
Usage | 1585 downloads |
Description
This data set, LBA-ECO LC-24 Forest Cover Map from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2001, contains forest cover information for 2001 for all of South America. The data were collected by the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard the Earth Observing System, TERRA (AM-1) satellite platform and released by the MODIS science team as an image showing percent canopy cover. This information was then reclassified so that all pixels with a percent canopy cover greater than 40% (40% after the 1973 UNESCO standard) were classified as forest (a value of 1), and all other pixels were classified as non-forest (a value of 2). Water features were given a value of 3. This data has a pixel resolution of 500 meters and is unprojected with the WGS-1984 datum (Hansen et al. 2006). There is one GeoTIFF data file for this data set.
Science Keywords
- LAND SURFACE
- LAND USE/LAND COVER
- LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
- LAND SURFACE
- LAND USE/LAND COVER
- LAND USE CLASSES
- BIOSPHERE
- VEGETATION
- VEGETATION COVER
- BIOSPHERE
- ECOSYSTEMS
- TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
- FORESTS
Data Use and Citation
This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the NASA Earthdata Data Use Guidance.
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- LC24_MODIS_Forest_Cover_500-m.pdf
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