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MODIS Collection 6.1 sinusoidal tiles yearly Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Extension 01
Kern, Stefan
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<subfield code="a"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Original forest cover fraction, vegetation cover fraction and fraction of non-vegetated area on 250m grid resolution sinusoidal grid were obtained in HDF file format from <a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/mod44bv061/">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/mod44bv061/</a>, read together with the bit-encoded quality information and converted into netCDF file format with latitude/longitude coordinates of every 250m x 250m pixel, and decoded quality flag information included (see <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>
<p><strong>TableOfContents:</strong> forest cover fraction; other vegetation cover fraction; non-vegetated land cover fraction; forest cover fraction standard deviation; quality flag</p>
<p><strong>Technical Info:</strong> dimension: 4800 columns x 4800 rows x unlimited; temporalExtent_startDate: 2022-03-06; temporalExtent_endDate: 2023-03-05; temporalResolution: yearly; spatialResolution: 250; spatialResolutionUnit: meters; horizontalResolutionXdirection: 250; horizontalResolutionXdirectionUnit: meters; horizontalResolutionYdirection: 250; horizontalResolutionYdirectionUnit: meters; verticalResolution: none; verticalResolutionUnit: none; verticalStart: none; verticalEnd: none; instrumentName: MODerate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS); instrumentType: visible_to_infrared_spectroradiometer; instrumentLocation: Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) Terra; instrumentProvider: NOAA/NASA</p>
<p><strong>Methods:</strong> [1] <a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/</a>; [2] Townshend, J., et al., User Guide for the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields product Collection 6.1, verison 1, <a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1494/MOD44B_User_Guide_V61pdf">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1494/MOD44B_User_Guide_V61pdf</a>; [3] Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), <a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/113/MOD44B_ATBD.pdf">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/113/MOD44B_ATBD.pdf</a>; [4] Carroll, M., et al., 2011. 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>
<p><strong>Units:</strong> Units for all variables (see TableOfContents): percent; percent; percent; percent; 1</p>
<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>
<p><strong>Size:</strong> files are packed into one zip-archive per year with an average size of about 25.6 GByte.</p>
<p><strong>Format:</strong> netCDF</p>
<p><strong>DataSources:</strong></p>
<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 2023-06-23), see also <a href="https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/">https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv061/</a> (last accessed: 2023-16-16)</p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:stefan.kern@uni-hamburg.de">stefan.kern (at) uni-hamburg.de</a></p>
<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></subfield>
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- Publication date:
- July 14, 2023
- DOI:
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- Keyword(s):
- Climate Research Forest Cover Fraction Vegetation Cover Fraction Sinusoidal grid tiles Yearly Satellite Remote Sensing MODIS EOS-Terra University of Maryland ICDC
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10.25592/uhhfdm.11198 - Derived from:
10.5067/MODIS/MOD44B.061 - Documented by:
https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/land/modis-vcf-forest.html - Source of:
10.25592/uhhfdm.12922 - References:
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