Abstract
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) is co-ordinating the development of global land data sets from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The first is a 1 km spatial resolution land cover product 'DISCover', based on monthly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index composites from 1992 and 1993. DISCover is a 17 class land cover dataset based on the science requirements of IGBP elements. Mapping uses unsupervised classification with post-classification refinement using ancillary data. Draft Africa, North America and South America products are now available for peer review.
Keywords
Land coverAdvanced very-high-resolution radiometerVegetation (pathology)Data setRemote sensingClimatologyEnvironmental scienceRadiometerBiosphereGlobal changeMeteorologyLand useGeographyComputer scienceGeologySatelliteClimate change
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Thomas R. Loveland,
Alan Belward
(1997).
The IGBP-DIS global 1km land cover data set, DISCover: First results.
International Journal of Remote Sensing
, 18
(15)
, 3289-3295.
https://doi.org/10.1080/014311697217099
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