GCIP/EOP Land Characterization: EROS Data Center Aggregated Land Cover Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.064

Summary
The land cover classes developed under the coordination of the international
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) have been
analyzed for a study area that includes the Conterminous United States and
portions of Mexico and Canada. The 1-km resolution data available from the
IGBP-DIS global 1 km land cover data set have been analyzed to produce a 20-km
resolution grided data set that includes the three most dominant land cover
classes within each 20-km grid cell. Additionally, the fractional area
associated with each of the three most dominant land cover classes as well as
teh area covered by water, was computed for each 20-km grid cell. The
fractional green vegetation cover (fgreen) associated with each of the three
most dominant land cover classes per grid cell was computed on a monthly
basis. The mean and standard deviation of fgreen were developed from monthly
values of the normalized difference vegetation index from 5-years (1993,
1995-98) of data derived from 1-km resloution NOAA-AVHRR data.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 21.064

Citation
 U.S. Geological Survey. 2006. GCIP/EOP Land Characterization: EROS Data
 Center Aggregated Land Cover Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.064 Accessed 19 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
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  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * GCIP/EOP: GCIP Enhanced Observing Period
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project?GCIP%2FEOP

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: monthly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Land Character
 * Satellite

Platforms
 * NOAA POES

Instruments
 * Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer - AVHRR

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION INDEX > NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)
 * EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION > VEGETATION INDEX > NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)

Documentation
 * edc_landcover.txt [14 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/4106C238/edc_landcover.txt

Related links
 * homepage: GCIP/EOP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcipeop
 * homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/gcip
 * info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/gcip-data-plans-and-reports

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1993-01-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1998-12-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 52.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 27.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -114.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Kevin P. Gallo <Kevin.P.Gallo@noaa.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/311

Additional contact information
 * originator: U.S. Geological Survey
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/472

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.064?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.064?format=isotc211