USGS Global Land Cover Characterization Program

Available at:

http://lpdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.asp

Data reference:

United States Geological Survey / EDC / UNL / JRC

Year:

since 1992
  Version:   1/2

Available data products:

Products


Scale/spatial resolution:

1km

Classification system:


Remote sensing data:

AVHRR

  Interpretation process:

Projection:

Interrupted Goode Homolosine
  Minimum Mapping Unit:

  Land Cover Classes:
 
  Objective:
  The overall goal is to produce flexible large-area land cover databases to meet
  evolving requirements of the earth science research community
  File Format:
  binary

Data release policy:

Open access

Costs:

For free

  Updates:
  No information