Global Land Use Data Sets  View Catalog Page Entry ID
ARCSS059
Summary
Information on soils, vegetation types, cultivated areas, wetlands and inundated areal fraction at 1- x 1-degree resolution for the Earth are available. Global FAO soil units data distinguish 27 soil types. The vegetation data set gives the global distribution of 32 vegetation types based on the UNESCO classification system. The cultivation data set describes the global distribution of cultivation intensity, distinguishing 5 classes. The wetlands data set gives the global distribution of wetlands, distinguishing 5 classes. These 5 wetlands classes were collapsed from 12 original classes that defined worldwide wetland ecosystems on the basis of environmental characteristics governing methane emissions. The inundated areal fraction data set is the global distribution of inundated areal fraction of 1-degree cells. These data can be combined with the wetlands data to calculate global wetland area.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: -90°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Elaine Matthews and Leonard Zobler
Dataset Title: Global Land Use Data Sets
Dataset Release Date: 1996-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/arcss059.html
Location Keywords
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION GLOBAL
Science Keywords
- Biosphere Terrestrial Ecosystems Wetlands
- Biosphere Vegetation Vegetation Index Vegetation Types
- Biosphere Vegetation Vegetation Species Vegetation Types
- Land Surface Land Use/Land Cover Land Cover
- Land Surface Land Use/Land Cover Land Use Classes
- Land Surface Soils Soil Classification
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere Surface Water Inundation
Ancillary Keywords
- ADCC
- ARCSS054
- ARCSS059
- Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
- Cultivated Areas
- Cultivation Intensity
- GLOBAL WETLAND AREA
- Inundated Areal Fraction
- METHANE EMISSIONS
- National Science Foundation
- NSF
- NSIDC
- Vegetation Types
- Wetlands
- World-wide Wetland Ecosystems
Platform
- GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instrument
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
ARCSS/ADCC
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC ARCSS User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 2048 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Leonard Zobler
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- 2880 Broadway
City: New York
Province or State: NY
Postal Code: 10025
Elaine Matthews
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 212 678-5628
Email: ematthews@giss.nasa.gov
Contact Address:
- NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- 2880 Broadway
City: New York
Province or State: NY
Postal Code: 10025
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
NASA GISS Global Land Use Data Sets Web site
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Sample Data Rendering
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
access to data and documentation
Reference
Matthews, E. 1983. Global vegetation and land use: New high- resolution databases for climate studies, Journal of Climatology and Applied Meteorology. 22:474-487.
Matthews, E. 1984. Prescription of land-surface boundary conditions in GISS GCM II: a simple method based on high-resolution vegetation data sets. NASA Technical Memorandum 86096, June 1984.
Matthews, E. 1989. Global data bases on distribution, characteristics and methane emission of natural wetlands: Documentation of archived data tape, NASA Technical Memorandum 4153, November 1989.
Matthews, E. and I. Fung. 1987. Methane emission from natural wetlands: Global distribution, area, and environmental characteristics of sources, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 1, 61-86.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 1996-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-09-13
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