Land Cover and Land Cover Change/ Cobertura del suelo y cambios en la cobertura del suelo
Dates
Publication Date
2014
Citation
Please cite the North American Land Cover, 2010 database as:
“2010 North American Land Cover at 250 m spatial resolution. Produced by Natural Resources Canada/ The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan/CCMEO), United States Geological Survey (USGS); Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) and Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR).”
Please cite the North American Land Cover Change, 2005-2010 database as:
“2005-2010 North American Land Cover Change at 250 m spatial resolution. Produced by Natural Resources Canada/ The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan/CCMEO), United States Geological Survey (USGS); Insituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) and Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR).”
Summary
These map products of the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) are a collaborative initiative between Canada, Mexico, and the United States to monitor land cover - the observed physical cover on the surface of the Earth - and its change over time. These maps represents land cover in 2005, 2010, and land cover change from 2005-2010 based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery monthly composites at 250 m spatial resolution. Nineteen land cover classes were defined using the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) standard developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. The NALCMS was developed to depict information about land cover and land cover change [...]
Summary
These map products of the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) are a collaborative initiative between Canada, Mexico, and the United States to monitor land cover - the observed physical cover on the surface of the Earth - and its change over time. These maps represents land cover in 2005, 2010, and land cover change from 2005-2010 based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery monthly composites at 250 m spatial resolution. Nineteen land cover classes were defined using the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) standard developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. The NALCMS was developed to depict information about land cover and land cover change in a seamless, consistent, and automated way across North America at regular intervals.
Estos mapas de cobertura de suelo son parte de una serie cartográfica elaborada en el marco del Sistema de Monitoreo del Cambio en la Cobertura del Suelo de América del Norte (NALCMS, por sus siglas en inglés), iniciativa conjunta de Canadá, Estados Unidos y México para monitorear la cubierta física de la superficie y sus cambios con el tiempo. El producto del NALCMS mostrado en este mapa representa la cobertura del suelo con base en compuestos mensuales de imágenes con una resolución espacial de 250 m obtenidas en 2010 por el sensor MODIS (espectrorradiómetro de formación de imágenes de resolución media, conocido por sus siglas en inglés).
The North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) was developed to depict information about land cover - the observed physical cover on the surface of the earth - and land cover change in a seamless, consistent, and automated way across North America at regular intervals.
El Sistema de Monitoreo del Cambio en la Cobertura del Suelo de América del Norte (NALCMS, por sus siglas en inglés) tiene por objeto elaborar representaciones de la cobertura del suelo —la cubierta física observada en la superficie terrestre— y mostrar sus cambios de modo integrado, concordante y automatizado para toda América del Norte, a intervalos regulares.
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