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LBA-ECO LC-04 SATELLITE/CENSUS-BASED 5-MINUTE LAND USE DATA, AMAZONIA: 1980 AND 1995

Entry ID: LC04_LANDUSE_5MIN

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Summary

Abstract: Amazonia has been under considerable development pressure as croplands and pasture are established in areas formerly occupied by tropical forest and cerrado. Although this region is an important part of several important planetary biogeochemical cycles, the location and impact of human land use are not well understood. In particular, there is no existing satellite-based map of agriculture across ...

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Spatial coordinates

N: 6.0

S: -21.0

E: -45.0

W: -80.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: CARDILLE, J. A.COSTA, M.H.FOLEY, J.A.

Dataset Title: LBA-ECO LC-04 SATELLITE/CENSUS-BASED 5-MINUTE LAND USE DATA, AMAZONIA: 1980 AND 1995

Dataset Release Date: 2009

Dataset Release Place: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Dataset Publisher: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

Data Presentation Form: Online Files

Dataset DOI: doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/906

Online Resource: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/query?term2=906&term2attribut...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1995-01-01

Stop Date: 1995-01-01

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > SOUTH AMERICA > AMAZONIA

Science Keywords

LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND COVER

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

FIELD SURVEYS

Instrument

AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Project

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

LBA-ECO > NASA's Component of the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia

Ancillary Keywords

AVHRR

PASTURE

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC)

Data Center URL: http://daac.ornl.gov/
Dataset ID: 906

Data Center Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE Phone: (865) 574-7447 Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov Contact Address: ORNL DAAC User Services Office Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA