Finer Resolution Observation and Monitoring of Global Land Cover (FROM-GLC)
Global land cover data are key sources of information for understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global change. FROM-GLC (Finer Resolution Observation and Monitoring of Global Land Cover) is the first 30 m resolution global land cover maps produced using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data. Our long-term goal in FROM-GLC is to develop a multiple stage approach to mapping global land cover so that the results can better meet the needs of land process modeling and can be easily cross-walked to existing global land cover classification schemes.
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2001
- Purpose
- The classification system in FROM-GLC version 2 (FROM-GLC_v2) defines 11 main classes that can be easily mapped to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) LC Classification System and the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP) classification system. This classification system evolved from the classification system of FROM-GLC version 1 with the addition of leaf information.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Global
- Agriculture
- Crop intensity
- Remote sensing
- HiH_FROM-GLC
- China Terrace Map
- Global land cover change
- Land cover series
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Global, Countries
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
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- Continents
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
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- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
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- Supplemental Information
- No data value: -9999
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326 - WGS84
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 14673
- Resolution
- 0.00892857143 degree
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 40320
- Resolution
- 0.00892857143 degree
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- No
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Finer Resolution Observation and Monitoring of Global Land Cover ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 88195af8-6b60-4fea-8c21-1878bae48a20 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Date stamp
- 2021-09-06T14:22:25
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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