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    • LBA-ECO LC-08 Soil, Vegetation, and Land Cover Maps for Brazil and South America

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set provides (1) soil maps for Brazil that are digital versions of the MAPA DE SOLOS DO BRASIL (EMBRAPA, 1981) classified at three levels of detail, 19-class, 70-class and 249-class; (2) vegetation maps for Brazil that are digital versions of the MAPA DE VEGETACAO DO BRASIL (IBGE, 1988) classified at three levels of detail, 13-class, 59-class, and an overprint (combination) class; and (3) a land cover map for all of South America that was derived from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data over the time period 1987 through 1991 (Stone et al., 1994).The seven soil, vegetation, and general land cover classification maps are provided as GeoTIFF files (*.tif) files. There are also three companion files (.pdf), one each, for the soil, vegetation, and land cover maps, with information on map units, class values, codes, and descriptions.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date September 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2768945067-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2013-04-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-09-18
    Category LBA-ECO, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Bliss, N. 2013. LBA-ECO LC-08 Soil, Vegetation, and Land Cover Maps for Brazil and South America. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1155
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1155
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -81.36 -34.84 -30.0 12.47
    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash 344c4b04c71dd2c357eb3a1c3d3c959431e9a0a23c158fb43a461bd31e7476c5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z/1991-12-31T23:59:59Z

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