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  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Rapid Land Cover Change

    Metadata Updated: August 28, 2023

    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Rapid Land Cover Change provides data and information on global and regional land cover change in raster format for agriculture (cropland increase and disease), deforestation (forest mask and hotspots), desertification (hotspot areas of degraded land and degradation types), and fires (most frequent and exceptional fires). Urbanization data are in vector format for cities with the highest rate of change (1995-2015), largest cities (2000), and the overlay of these two data layers for the year 2000. This assessment identified the need to synthesize what is known about areas of rapid land cover change around the world in order to evaluate how the provision of ecosystem goods and services has changed.

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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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    References

    https://doi.org/10.7927/H47P8WB9
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CF9N1K
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4V9860B
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4QJ7F8M
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4KW5CZ6

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 28, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Graphic Preview

    Sample browse graphic of the data set.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 28, 2023
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000620-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2005-05-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2005-05-29
    Category MA, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    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 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005-05-29. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Rapid Land Cover Change. Version 1.00. Washington, DC. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Island Press. https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76. https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76.
    Creator Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
    Graphic Preview Description Sample browse graphic of the data set.
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    Harvest Object Id 80f8d0ba-3026-46dd-92f6-623f4684c595
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7927/H4G44N76
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H47P8WB9, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CF9N1K, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4V9860B, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4QJ7F8M, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4KW5CZ6
    Release Place Washington, DC
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 17933d8a553d2ed4367cd48d53ded28d77993543
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z/2015-12-31T00:00:00Z

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