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GCIP/EOP Land Characterization: EROS Data Center Aggregated Land Cover Data

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.

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Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/21.064
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Related projects	GCIP/EOP: GCIP Enhanced Observing Period
Spatial Type	grid
Frequency	monthly
Language	English
Categories	Land Character Satellite
Platforms	NOAA POES
Instruments	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer - AVHRR
GCMD Science Keywords	NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI) Expand keywords
Documentation	edc_landcover.txt [14 KiB]
Related links	info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage homepage: GCIP/EOP EOL Homepage

Temporal coverage

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

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

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

Primary point of contact information

Kevin P. Gallo <Kevin.P.Gallo@noaa.gov>

Additional contact information

originator: U.S. Geological Survey

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 23 Apr 2024.

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