Land Cover Type

The MODIS Land Cover Type product is created yearly using three landclassification schemes; the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP)classification scheme, the Univertiy of Maryland (UMD) classification scheme, and aMODIS-derived Leaf Area Index /Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation(LAI/fPAR) classification scheme (Table 3).

The International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) identifies seventeenland cover classes, including eleven natural vegetation classes, three non-vegetated landclasses, and three developed land classes. The product provided is derived using the samealgorithm as the 500 m Land Cover Type (MOD12Q1), but is on a 0.05° Climate Model Grid(CMG), that has been clipped to the pan-Arctic extent. The UMD classification scheme issimilar to the IGBP classification scheme, but it excludes the Permanent wetlands,Cropland/Natural vegetation mosaic, and the Snow and ice classes.

The LAI/fPARclassification scheme is the smallest of the three, and focuses on forest structure; it only haseleven classes. All three land cover classification schemes are provided, but the IGBPclassification scheme is the most amenable to the Pan-Arctic region.

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MCD12C1
Date (Publication)
2014-12-16
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https://geo.abds.is/geonetwork/97992604-f60e-4446-bbda-d98ec4a992d3
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http://geo.abds.is:8081/geonetwork97992604-f60e-4446-bbda-d98ec4a992d3
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Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

abds@caff.is

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Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF www.caff.is) working group of the Arctic Council
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Irregular
Keywords

  • MODIS

  • remote sensing

  • terrestrial

  • boundary
Keywords

  • Land Cover Type

  • UMD

  • MOD12Q1

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Orthoimagery

  • Geology

  • Land cover
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OGC:WMS

 		https://geo.abds.is/geoserver/arctic_sdi/wms?

2019_LandCoverType

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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://abds.is/index.php/indices/land-cover-change-index-edocman
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2026-02-19T17:51:32.540849538Z
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1.2
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Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

abds@caff.is

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Keywords

Land Cover Type MOD12Q1 UMD
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology Land cover Orthoimagery


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