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

Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

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.

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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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Dates

Metadata Created Date October 11, 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 11, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2777327573-ORNL_CLOUD
Data First Published 2023-10-03
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2023-10-04
Category LBA-ECO, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
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 Ramankutty, N., and J.A. Foley. 2002. LBA Regional Potential Vegetation, 5-min (Ramankutty and Foley). ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/684
Graphic Preview Description Browse Image
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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/684
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -85.0 -25.0 -30.0 10.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 1faa0cb683bea8a541d940b6478ae8edd4c8ec7a233f4fb86bb0145d602739be
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z/1992-01-01T23:59:59Z

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