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Global
Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000) |
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Available at: |
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/fao/index.asp http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=6162&sitetreeId=24684&langId=1&geoId=0 |
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Data reference: |
The
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), |
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Year: |
2000 |
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Available data products: |
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Products |
Global
Forest Canopy Density Global Forest Cover |
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Scale/spatial resolution: |
1km |
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Classification system: |
Global
Forest Cover Map:
Classification of: -Land cover (closed forest, open or fragmented forest, other wooded land, other land cover, and water) - - |
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Remote sensing data: |
AVHRR (1995) |
| File format: |
Binary |
| Interpretation
process: |
Bottom-up
approach (from country level to subregion,
region and global level), but supplemented by global level verification The forest map was produced from the Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) Database (1km res.) derived from monthly AVHRR composite images processed using a hybrid maximum-NDVI and minimum-red compositing technique Modified mixture analysis, geographic stratification, and other classification techniques to estimate forest canopy density within one pixel (= the basis for the classes ‘closed forest’ and ‘open or fragmented forest’. The remaining three FAO classes were derived using the GLCC as a stratification tool |
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Projection: |
Interrupted Goode Homolosine |
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Validation: |
Each
participating country need to provide a Country Validation Profile,
validation mainly on the basis of existing reference data sets |
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Objective: |
To appraise
the state of the world’s forests in 2000 and changes since the 1980s Consideration of the need for improved forest information for use by national institutions and international conventions (UNFCCC, UNCCD, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) |
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Data release policy: |
Open access |
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Costs: |
For free |
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Updates: |
A five-year
cycle for future global assessments was recommended by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) The FRA 2005 has been requested by the FAO Committee on Forestry in 2003 Previous global assessments have been carried out at approximately ten-year intervals (previous FRA in 1990) |
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Contact: |
Peter Holmgren, FAO (peter.holmgren@fao.org) |
