Datasets / Global Vegetation Types, 1971-1982 (Matthews)

Global Vegetation Types, 1971-1982 (Matthews)

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Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

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automatically awarded

Description

ABSTRACT: A global digital data base of vegetation was compiled at 1 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude resolution, drawing on approximately 100 published sources. Vegetation data from varied sources were consistently recorded using the hierarchical UNESCO classification system. The raw data base distinguishes about 180 vegetation types that have been collapsed to 32.

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