LBA-ECO LC-24 Forest Cover Map from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2001

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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Data set documentation PDF. https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/lba/land_use_land_cover_change/LC24_MODIS_Forest_Cover_500-m/comp/LC24_MODIS_Forest_Cover_500-m.pdf
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/lba/land_use_land_cover_change/LC24_MODIS_Forest_Cover_500-m/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1056
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/guides/LC24_MODIS_Forest_Cover_500-m.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1056
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1056_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=1056

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  • ecosystems
  • land-use-land-cover
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • national-geospatial-data-asset
  • ngda
  • vegetation
  • earth-science

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