Table 1.
Main global land-cover maps derived from remote sensing data 1 km spatial resolution.
| title | author | domain | sensor | methods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Geosphere–Biosphere Program (IGBP) | Loveland et al. (1999) | global | AVHRR | 12 monthly vegetation indices from April 1992 to March 1993 |
| University of Maryland (UMD) | Hansen et al. (2000) | global | AVHRR | 41 multi-temporal metrics from composites from April 1992 to March 1993 |
| TREES | Mayaux et al. (1999) and Eva et al.(1999) | humid tropics | AVHRR | Mosaics of single date classifications of cloud-free images (1992–1993) |
| FRA-2000 | FAO (2001) | global | AVHRR | Updated from the IGBP dataset |
| MODIS-land-cover | Friedl et al. (2002) | global | MODIS-Terra | 12 monthly composites of 8 parameters from October 2000 to October 2001 |
| Global Land-Cover (GLC) 2000 | Eva et al. (2004), Mayaux et al. (2004) and Stibig et al. (2003) | global | SPOT-VEGETATION | 365 daily mosaics of 4 channels+36 temporal vegetation indices profiles for 2000 |