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Vegetative Cover Conversion and Vegetation Continuous Fields. In: Ramachandran, B., C. O. Justice, and M. Abrams (eds.), Land Remote Sensing and Global Environment Change: NASA&#39;s Earth Observing System and the Science of ASTER and MODIS. Springer Verlag.; [5] Hansen, M., et al., 2005. Estimation of tree cover using MODIS data at global, continental and regional/local scales. Int. J. Rem. Sens., 26(19), 4359-4380.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Units:</strong> Units for all variables (see TableOfContents): percent; percent; percent; percent; 1</p>\n\n<p><strong>geoLocations:</strong> westBoundLongitude:depends on tile; eastBoundLongitude: depends on tile; southBoundLatitude: depends on tile; northBoundLatitude: depends on tile; geoLocationPlace: global on land, see: <a href=\"https://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODLAND_grid.html\">https://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODLAND_grid.html</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Size:</strong> files are packed into one zip-archive per year with an average size of about 25.6 GByte.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Format:</strong> netCDF</p>\n\n<p><strong>DataSources:</strong></p>\n\n<p>Original data on sinusoidal grid tiles in hdf-format: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD44B.061\">https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD44B.061</a> (last accessed 2022-11-01), see also <a href=\"https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/\">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/</a> (last accessed: 2022-11-01)</p>\n\n<p><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href=\"mailto:stefan.kern@uni-hamburg.de\">stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Web page:</strong> <a href=\"https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-vcf-forest.html\">https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-vcf-forest.html</a></p>","doi":"10.25592/uhhfdm.11198","keywords":["Climate Research","Forest Cover Fraction","Vegetation Cover Fraction","Sinusoidal grid tiles","Yearly","Satellite Remote Sensing","MODIS","EOS-Terra","University of Maryland","ICDC"],"language":"eng","license":{"id":"CC-BY-4.0"},"publication_date":"2022-12-27","related_identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.5067/MODIS/MOD44B.061","relation":"isDerivedFrom","scheme":"doi"},{"identifier":"10.25592/uhhfdm.11196","relation":"isSourceOf","scheme":"doi"},{"identifier":"https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/","relation":"references","scheme":"url"},{"identifier":"https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-vcf-forest.html","relation":"isDocumentedBy","scheme":"url"},{"identifier":"10.25592/uhhfdm.11197","relation":"isVersionOf","scheme":"doi"}],"relations":{"version":[{"count":3,"index":0,"is_last":false,"last_child":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"16655"},"parent":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"11197"}}]},"resource_type":{"title":"Dataset","type":"dataset"},"subjects":[{"identifier":"https://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf","scheme":"url","term":"Natural Sciences"},{"identifier":"https://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf","scheme":"url","term":"Earth and related Environmental Sciences"}],"title":"MODIS Collection 6.1 sinusoidal tiles yearly Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction","version":"2022_fv0.01"},"owners":[162],"revision":3,"updated":"2025-01-14T15:21:22.600038+00:00"}