Landcover data shown here was extracted from the Global Land Cover 2000 database (GLC2000), developed with coordination by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission to provide accurate baseline landcover information to the International Conventions on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Ramsar Convention and the Kyoto Protocol.
The GLC2000 project represented a broadly collaborative approach to global mapping using a common remote sensing dataset. Based on 14 months of daily 1-km resolution imagery from the VEGETATION instrument on-board the SPOT 4 satellite (collected over the period 1 Nov.1999 - 31 Dec. 2000), local experts from across 30 research teams conducted classifications to compose 19 regional views. The classification for North America was led by: Rasim Latifovic and Josef Cihlar of the Canada Center for Remote Sensing, and Zhi-Liang Zhu and Charndra Gira at the USGS EROS Data Center. Online data source: http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000.
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