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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens. 2016 Aug 10;54(11):6320–6332. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2579604

Table 2.

Land use category groupings used for establishing bias corrections, with corresponding IGBP indices and percentage of the domain occupied by each type.

Aggregated Category IGBP Index IGBP Description Percent of Domain
Deciduous Forest 4 Deciduous Broadleaf Forest 18.4
Other Forest 5 Mixed Forests 10.7
8 Woody Savannas 3.0
2 Evergreen Broadleaf Forest 2.4
1 Evergreen Needleleaf Forest 1.9
3 Deciduous Needleleaf Forest <0.1
Crops 12 Croplands 28.8
14 Cropland/natural vegetation mosaic 16.6
16 Barren or sparsely vegetated <0.1
Grasslands 10 Grasslands 14.3
9 Savannas 0.3
Shrublands 7 Open Shrublands 0.8
6 Closed Shrublands <0.1
Urban 13 Urban and Built-Up 2.7