The Global Potential Vegetation Data Base

Data reference:

Complex Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA

Available data products:

Global Potential Vegetation Map

Scale/spatial resolution:

0.5 degree

Classification system:

34 classes of potential vegetation

Vegetation classes used in modeling vegetation dynamics

Ambiguous classes have been removed

Objective:

To extend and improve the GISS Global Vegetation Data Set

Contact:

J. M. Melillo