The Global Land Cover Map for the Year 2000 (GLC 2000)

Available at:

http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000/defaultglc2000.htm

Data reference:

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Year:

2003

Available data products:

Product

Version

File format

Further information available

Global product

1.1

ESRI/Binary/TIFF/Img

yes

South America 

2.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

Africa

3.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

Northern Eurasia

3.0

Binary

yes

Asia

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

South Asia

1.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

South East Asia

2.0

ESRI/Binary

no

Europe All

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

North East Europe

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

North West Europe

1.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

Southern Europe

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

France

2.0

ESRI/Binary

no

China

3.0

ESRI/Binary

no

North America

2.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

Solomon Islands

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

Australia

1.0

ESRI/Binary

yes

New Caledonia and Vanuatu

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

New Zealand

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

Fijian Islands

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

North Africa

-

-

-

Greenland and Iceland

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

Hawaii

1.0

ESRI/Binary

no

Scale/spatial resolution:

1km

Classification system:

Based on LCCS

Remote sensing data:

SPOT Vegetation

  Interpretation process:
   GLC 2000 partners were left free in terms of classification procedures to apply
  Harmonisation and merging of regional products to one global product (bottom-up
  approach)
  19 regional products: Produced by regional GLC2000 partners, with a regionally specific
  legend
  1 global product: Harmonisation of all the regional products, into a full resolution global
  product, generalised legend

Projection:

Geographic (Lat/Long)
  Objective:
   Produce a land cover map and database for the whole globe
  To provide harmonized regional and global land cover map(s) and database
  Consideration of the need for improved land cover information deriving from a number of
  initiatives, in particular the ecosystem-related international conventions (UNFCCC,
  UNCCD, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment)

Data release policy:

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Costs:

For free
  Updates:
   Continuation of global land cover mapping with GLOBCOVER

GLC2000