RLC AVHRR-Derived Land Cover, Former Soviet Union, 15-km, 1984-1993

Description

This dataset is a 15-kilometer resolution land cover map for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. There are sixty land cover classes distinguished in this dataset, of which 38 are forest cover classes. The data set is useful for stratification of the FSU into general sub-regions of land cover for subsequent study using higher resolution satellite data.

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21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F689
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/689
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/dlcmap_legend.dbf
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/dlcmap_projection.txt
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/dlcmap_readme.txt
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/RLC_AVHRR_FSU_15_km.pdf
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/RLC/guides/RLC_AVHRR_FSU_15_km.html
22 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/dlcmap.jpg
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/global_vegetation/rlc_land_cover/comp/dlcmap_legend.txt
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/vegetation_logo_square.png

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  • land-use-land-cover
  • land-surface
  • earth-science

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