International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP)

Available at:

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/www/islscp/

Data reference:

NASA

Year:

1986-1995, depending on each data set
  Version:   Initiative 1/2

Available data products:

Products

EDC Land Cover Data
Global C4 Vegetation Percentage
Global Continuous Fields of Vegetation Cover
Global Historical Land Cover & Land Use
Global Potential Vegetation
UMD Global Land Cover Classifications

Scale/spatial resolution:

0.5 x 0.5 degree

Classification system:

Different for each data set

Remote sensing data:

1986-1995
  Interpretation process:
  Different for each data set

Projection:


  Minimum Mapping Unit:

  Land Cover Classes:
 
  Objective:
  To support investigations of the global carbon, water and energy cycle
 
To provide access to important global land cover data sets
  File Format:
  ASCII

Data release policy:


Costs:


  Updates:
  No information