Data · collection
Africa Wilson & Henderson-Sellers Secondary Vegetation Classes and Class Reliability, 1985
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Description
The Wilson and Henderson-Sellers Secondary Vegetation Classes and Class Reliability data sets are part of the "Wilson Henderson-Sellers land cover and soils for global circulation modeling project " and were developed by the World Data Center-A (WDC-A) for Solid Earth Geophysics, operated by the US National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The data sets are part of the World Data Bank II. This data Bank is provided in a Database on diskette called ""The Global Change Data Base"".
The Data Bank II is part of larger project called "Global Ecosystems Database Project". This is a cooperative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NGDC and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The National Center for Geographic Information and Analyses (NCGIA) in Santa Barbara, California joined the project to assist with training and evaluation.
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A nominal 10 arc-minute scale was chosen to provide compatibility with other scales and because this corresponds closely with the resolution of global AVHRR coverage. All data are provided in geographic (longitude/latitude) projection. The data sets are accompanied by an ASCII documentation file which contains information necessary for the use of the dataset in GIS or other software.
References: Wilson, M.F./ and A. Henderson-Sellers. A global archive of land cover and soils data for use in general circulation climate models. Journal of Climatology, vol.5, pp.119-143.
Source : Digitized from available sources: FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World Publication Date : 1985 Projection : lat/lon Type : Raster Format : IDRISI
Links
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232848868-CEOS_EXTRA.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232848868-CEOS_EXTRA.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Biodiversity Functions · Land Use/Land Cover Classification · Mangroves · Not provided · Plants · Soils · Soils · Vegetation Species · Wetlands · Wetlands · Wetlands
Provenance · 1 source records, 17 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2232848868-CEOS_EXTRA | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/agriculture/soils | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/plants | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics/community-dynamics/biodiversity-functions | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/aquatic-ecosystems/wetlands | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/terrestrial-ecosystems/wetlands | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-species | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/land-use-land-cover/land-use-land-cover-classification | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/soils | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/coastal-processes/mangroves | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/terrestrial-hydrosphere/surface-water/surface-water-features/wetlands | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |