LBA Regional Potential Vegetation, 5-min (Ramankutty and Foley)

Description

The data set consists of a subset for the study area of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) in South America (i.e., longitude 85 deg to 30 deg W, latitude 25 deg S to 10 deg N) of the 5-min resolution Global Potential Vegetation data set developed by Navin Ramankutty and Jon Foley at the University of Wisconsin. Data are available in both ASCII GRID and binary image file formats.The original map was derived at a 5-min resolution and contains natural vegetation classified into 15 types.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/guides/lba_uwveg.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/684
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/684_1_fit.png
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=684
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F684
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/lba/land_use_land_cover_change/potential_vegetation/comp//uwveg_readme.pdf
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/lba/land_use_land_cover_change/potential_vegetation/

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  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • earth-science

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