LBA Regional Boundary for the Legal Amazon of Brazil, 8-km

Description

The Legal Amazon of Brazil is defined by law to include the states of Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, Mato Grosso, Maranhao, and Tocantins [Fundacao Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) 1991]. This is the definition used in generating the Legal Amazon mask. The 8-km Legal Amazon mask was generated by Christopher Potter at the Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch of the Earth Science Division at NASA Ames Research Center (Potter and Brooks-Genovese 1999). The mask was generated from the Digital Chart of the World available from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). The mask is available in ASCII GRID format. The README file accompanying the mask has more information regarding data format. More information can be found at ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/lba/human_dimensions/legal_amazon_mask/comp/legamazon_readme.pdf.

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Name Format Description Link
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/lba/human_dimensions/legal_amazon_mask/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/guides/lba_legamazon.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/671
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/671_1_fit.png
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/lba/human_dimensions/legal_amazon_mask/comp//legamazon_readme.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F671
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=671

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  • human-dimensions
  • boundaries
  • earth-science

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