gm_ve_v2
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International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)
+81 29 864 6910
+81 29 864 8087
c/o Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Kitasato 1
Tsukuba
Ibaraki
305-0811
Japan
sec@iscgm.org
http://www.iscgm.org/
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2013-07-19
Global Map Metadata Profile
2.0
Geographic
WGS84
WGS84
Global Map - Vegetation layer (Percent Tree Cover) -
2013-07-19
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Version 2.0
The Global Percent Tree Cover represents the density of trees on the ground. The data shows the ratio of the vertically projected area of tree canopy to the unit area of ground surface.
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Chiba University and collaborating organizations
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
+81 29 864 1564
+81 29 864 6923
Kitasato 1
Tsukuba
Ibaraki
305-0811
Japan
chikyuchizu@gsi.go.jp
http://www.gsi.go.jp/
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Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku
Chiba
Chiba
263-8522
Japan
http://www.cr.chiba-u.jp/index.html
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International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)
+81 29 864 6910
+81 29 864 8087
c/o Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Kitasato 1
Tsukuba
Ibaraki
305-0811
Japan
sec@iscgm.org
http://www.iscgm.org/
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Users who wish to use data shall write in the necessary items on Registration for the Use of Global Map form in the Home page of ISCGM. For more information, please see "Agreement for use" (http://www.iscgm.org/).
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Users shall mark the data source and indicate copyright on the product when they used the data in order to make known that they used the data for their products.
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arcsecond
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This data set covers the whole world.
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BIL (Band Interleaved by Line), Geotiff
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http://www.iscgm.org/
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Global Map Vegetation layer- Global Percent Tree Cover version 2 was developed using MODIS 2008 data.