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Land cover (GLCF)

This dataset depicts the landcover in the Baltic Sea catchment area.

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Date (Creation)
2005
Unique resource identifier
https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/875b7fcb-d7f0-4aa6-a79d-a9c3785755a2
pointOfContact
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

GEMET

  • drainage

Keywords
  • MADS

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Use constraints: Data can be used freely given that the sources are cited.

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Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
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Begin date
2005-07-01
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

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Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Land cover thematic grid of the Baltic Sea drainage basin compiled from Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) data produced by NASA and University of Maryland. Original raster data is available unprojected (Geographic coordinate system, Sphere, rad 6370997 m datum) with spatial resolution of 30 arc-seconds (~1 km). The layer available here is a regional extract from the original database in Erdas Imagine (IMG) format projected into ETRS89_LAEA CRS (Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection and ETRS89 datum) with resolution of 1000 m, data format is thematic, unsigned 8 bit. GLCF Global Land Cover pixel thematic values are: 0 - Water (and Goode's interrupted space), 1 - Evergreen needleleaf forest, 2 - Evergreen broadleaf forest, 3 - Deciduous needleleaf forest, 4 - Deciduous broadleaf forest, 5 - Mixed forest, 6 - Woodland, 7 - Wooded grassland, 8 - Closed shrubland, 9 - Open shrubland, 10 - Grassland, 11 - Cropland, 12 - Bare ground, 13 - Urban and built-up areas.

File identifier
875b7fcb-d7f0-4aa6-a79d-a9c3785755a2 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-11-10T14:26:37
pointOfContact
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Keywords

GEMET
drainage
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover

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