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    • LBA-ECO LC-22 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2000-2001

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set contains proportional estimates for the vegetative cover types of tree cover, herbaceous vegetation, and bare ground over South America for the period 2000-2001. These products were derived from all seven bands of the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA's Terra satellite. A set of 500-m MOD09A1 Surface Reflectance 8-day minimum blue reflectance composites were used as input data. To reduce the presence of cloud shadows, The data were converted to 40-day composites using a second darkest albedo (sum of blue, green, and red bands), and the Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) algorithmn was utilized (Hansen et al., 2002). The VCF shows how much of a land cover such as forest or grassland exists anywhere on the land surface. The VCF product may depict areas of heterogeneous land cover better than traditional discrete classification schemes which shows where land cover types are concentrated. There are three images provided in GeoTIFF format.

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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 October 18, 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 October 18, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2780900765-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-03
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-11
    Category LBA-ECO, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Hansen, M.C., R.S. Defries, J.R.G. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R.A. Sohlberg. 2012. LBA-ECO LC-22 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2000-2001. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1112
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1112
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -82.0 -63.0 -34.0 16.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9fe423e6c1f8f4f76a32e74d56f37397dedbce04890aef84538c0594d95676ee
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2000-11-01T00:00:00Z/2001-11-30T23:59:59Z

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