Forests of the World 2010 (FAO - FRA 2015)

The 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA2015) continues the tradition of seeking to describe the world’s forests – a tradition that began in 1948. The world’s forest 2010 map is a raster product with a pixel size of 250 meters by 250 meters.

It was prepared with the following geospatial layers :

- Forest cover data from the Vegetation Continuous Fields product (VCF) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor, on-board the Terra and Aqua satellites (Earth Observation System, NASA) with a 250 m spatial resolution (Hansen et al., 2003).

- Water data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM, NASA) Water Body Data at 250 m spatial resolution in combination with the MODIS global water mask (Carroll et al., 2009).

- Elevation data from the SRTM at 1 km resolution, down-sampled to the 10 million scale.

- Country boundaries and coastlines from the Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL, 2008) of the FAO.

- Global ecological zones (FAO, 2012)

References:

- Hansen, M., R. DeFries, J.R. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R. Sohlberg, 2003. Vegetation Continuous Fields MOD44B, 2001 Percent Tree Cover, Collection 3, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2001.

- Carroll, M., Townshend, J., DiMiceli, C., Noojipady, P., Sohlberg, R. 2009. A New Global Raster Water Mask at 250 Meter Resolution. International Journal of Digital Earth. ( volume 2 number 4)

- FAO, 2012 Global ecological zones for FAO forest reporting: 2010 Update. Forest resources Assessment Working Paper 179, Rome, 2012.

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Date ( Creation )
2013-06-07T13:12:00
Edition
1.0 2011
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Originator
Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations - ( FOM Forestry Department )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome Italy

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • forest
  • global
  • land cover
  • MODIS
  • FRA 2015
  • vegetation
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
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Spatial representation type
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Denominator
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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
2010
End date
2010
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Reference system identifier
ESRI World Robinson / 54030
Number of dimensions
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Dimension size
74384
Resolution
231.65635  m
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Dimension size
146595
Resolution
231.65635  m
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Area
Transformation parameter availability
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OnLine resource
FORESTRY:fra2010 ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Global forestry density

OnLine resource
fra2010 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 - Download

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Metadata language
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Character set
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Date stamp
2017-03-07T13:53:01
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Originator
Food and Agriculture Organization of UN - ( FOM Forestry Department )

 
 

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FRA 2015 MODIS forest global land cover vegetation

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