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Land Cover Type

The MODIS Land Cover Type product is created yearly using three landclassification schemes; the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP)classification scheme, the Univertiy of Maryland (UMD) classification scheme, and aMODIS-derived Leaf Area Index /Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation(LAI/fPAR) classification scheme (Table 3).

The International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) identifies seventeenland cover classes, including eleven natural vegetation classes, three non-vegetated landclasses, and three developed land classes. The product provided is derived using the samealgorithm as the 500 m Land Cover Type (MOD12Q1), but is on a 0.05° Climate Model Grid(CMG), that has been clipped to the pan-Arctic extent. The UMD classification scheme issimilar to the IGBP classification scheme, but it excludes the Permanent wetlands,Cropland/Natural vegetation mosaic, and the Snow and ice classes.

The LAI/fPARclassification scheme is the smallest of the three, and focuses on forest structure; it only haseleven classes. All three land cover classification schemes are provided, but the IGBPclassification scheme is the most amenable to the Pan-Arctic region.

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Alternate title
MCD12C1
Date ( Publication )
2014-12-16
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Date ( Creation )
Identifier
https://geo.abds.is/geonetwork/97992604-f60e-4446-bbda-d98ec4a992d3
Identifier
http://geo.abds.is/geonetwork97992604-f60e-4446-bbda-d98ec4a992d3
Point of contact
  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
Borgir, Nordurslod , Akureyri , 600 , Iceland
+354 462 3350
Credit
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF www.caff.is) working group of the Arctic Council
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
Keywords
  • MODIS
  • remote sensing
  • terrestrial
  • boundary
Keywords
  • Land Cover Type
  • UMD
  • MOD12Q1
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Orthoimagery
  • Geology
  • Land cover
Metadata language
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 102017
OnLine resource
2019_LandCoverType ( OGC:WMS )

2019_LandCoverType

OnLine resource
Land-Cover-Type.jpg ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
http://abds.is/index.php/land-cover-change-index-docman/landcovertype ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
File identifier
97992604-f60e-4446-bbda-d98ec4a992d3 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF16
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-02-13T14:02:09
Metadata standard version
1.2
Point of contact
  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) -
www.abds.is
 
 

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Land-Cover-Type.jpg

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Geology Land cover Orthoimagery

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