Map Resources for Global Land Cover Project

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Note: The "Location" and "Call Number" columns are for internal University of Maryland use and refer to physical location of resources at the University.

Ref. Code Continent Area Type Scale Projection Date Title/Format Location Call # Language Notes
AFR_1 Africa Africa Vegetation 1:5,000,000 Miller oblated stereographic 1983 "The Vegetation of Africa"; paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "Africa" map drawer English by F. White. UNESCO,LaChaux-de-fonds, Switzerland. Owned by S. Prince. Accompanied by book.
AFR_2 Africa Africa Natural Vegetation 1:48,000,000 (lat/long) 1986 digital map WWW http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/africa/Africa_veg_86.jpg English
AFR_3 Africa Sahel land cover/use UTM 31, Clarke 1880 ellipsoide 1988-1992 digital map WWW http://www.orstom.fr/hapex/map/index.html English
ARC_1 (Arctic Region) (Arctic Region) land cover - Lambert-Azimuthal Equal Area 1994 digital map WWW http://www.grida.no/infop/caff/physgeo.gif English
AS_1 Asia Asia political, relief various various various digital map WWW http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/asia.html English produced by CIA
AS_2 Asia Asia natural vegetation 1:12,000,000 Goodes 1962 digital map WWW http://sws.agshantz.arizona.edu:8080/thesis/nvmap.gif English digitized by H. Jin
AS_3 Asia China Landsat map 1:6,000,000 unknown 1991 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak green map tube English owned by J.Townshend
AS_4 Asia China vegetation 1:4,000,000 (lat/long) 1979 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "N. Asia" map drawer Chinese key translated to English
AS_5 Asia USSR/ Ob River Area vegetation 1:1,500,000 none 1979 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "Temperate Asia" map drawer Russian owned by M. Hansen
AS_6 Asia USSR forest types 1:2,500,000 (lat/long) 1990 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "World Misc." map drawer Russian owned by S. Prince
AS_7 Asia Russia vegetation 1:2,500,000 (lat/long) 1976 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "World Misc." map drawer Russian owned by S. Prince
AS_8 Asia Kazakhstan natural landscapes interpreted from mss scene ~1:700,000 unknown pre-1989 Atlas of Interpretation of MSS Images NASA/GSFC library RES TR 810.AZ4 English photocopy in 2138F Lefrak "Temp. Asia" map drawer
AS_9 Asia Mongolia land cover & anthrop. disturb. 1:1,000,000 (lat/long) 1995 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "Temperate Asia" map drawer English owned by C.J. Tucker
AS_10 Asia Mongolia land cover 1:1,500,000 (lat/long) 1979 paper map NASA/GSFC code 923 Russian owned by C.J. Tucker
AS_11 Asia Mongolia lanscape zones very broad unknown 1993 Natural Heritage of Mongolia 2138F Lefrak "Temperate Asia" map drawer English owned by C.J. Tucker
AS_12 Asia Thailand land cover/use (interpreted mss) Goodes images '83-'85 hand-annoted color print 2138F LeFrak "S. Asia" map drawer English 4 mss images interpreted/annotated by S. Limjirakan (Chulalongkorn University) & C. Silapathong, (Thailand Remote Sensing Center, Bangkok)
AS_13 Asia India (4 districts) land use/land cover 1:250,000 - 1988-89 4 paper maps Lefrak 2138F "S.E. Asia" map drawer English from National Remote Sensing Agency, Dept. of Space, Hyderabad, India. Interpreted from TM,MSS, & LISS data.
AUS_1 Australia Australia landcover digital map geogd60 /rdefries/australia/ausmap.pix English PCI .pix file. Key is in file regroup.mod. Acquired through Sietse Long from Graetz
AUS_2 Australia Australia natural vegetation - Geometric (Australian National Spheroid) 1994 digital map WWW http://kaos.erin.gov.au/land/vegetation/nat_veg_struct_tall.gif English
AUS_3 Australia Australia Percent plant cover Alber's Equal Area 1991-2 digital map WWW http://kaos.erin.gov.au/ndvi/plant_cover.html English original grid cell resolution = 1km
EUR_1 Europe European Communtity Countries natural vegetation 1:3,000,000 Lambertian conformal, std. parallels 27 & 63 deg. N 1987 paper map w/explanatory text,"Map of Nat. Veg. of Member Countries of Eur. Community" UM, 2138F Lefrak "Europe" map drawer English & French Pub. by Commission of European Communities
NOR_1 North America Conterminous U.S. land cover characteristics 1991 text, paper map; "Development of a land-cover characteristics database for the conterminous U.S." Journal; Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing Vol. 57(11), pp. 1453-1463 English Authors: Loveland, T.R., Merchant, J.W., Ohlen, D.O., and Brown, J.F.
NOR_2 North America Conterminous U.S. SiB land cover classes (1 km resolution) Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area 1990 CD-ROM, "Conterminous U.S. Land Cover Characteristics Data Set" UM, 2138 Lefrak Land Cover Project cabinet English Provided by T. R. Loveland. Distributed by USA-USGS-EDC-9307, Conserv. & Survey Div. of Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln. File name = /DERIVED/IMAGES/LCCSIB.IMG
NOR_3 North America United States forest type & density 1992 CD-ROM, "Forest Maps of the United States, 1993 RPA Program" UM, 2138 Lefrak Land Cover Project cabinet English From USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory & Analysis, Starkville,MS.
NOR_4 North America Quebec, Canada land use/cover 1:3,000,000 Lambert conic conformal 1992 classified satellite image on paper UM, 2138F "N. America" map drawer French
SOU_1 South America South America Vegetation 1:5,000,000 (lat/long) 1981 paper map w/ explanatory text,"Veg. Map of S. America" 2138F Lefrak "S. America" map drawer English, Spanish, & Portuguese Unesco map.
SOU_2 South America Brazil vegetation 1:5,000,000 polyconic 1988 paper map UM Geography Dept. - Portuguese owned by C. Havelicek
SOU_3 South America Bolivia vegetation (5 TM images & classified interpretations) 1993 Acerca de la geoecologia de las sabanas del Beni en el noreste de Bolivia M. Steininger personal collection Deposito legal no. 4-1-857-93 Spanish book written by Werner Hanangarth, Instituto de Ecologia, La Paz, Bolivia.
SOU_4 South America Bolivia vegetation (lat/long) 1993 Guia de arboles de Bolivia M. Steininger personal collection Deposito legal no. 4-1-693-93 Spanish Edited by T.J. Killeen, E.G. Garcia, and S.G. Beck, Dept of Publications, Missouri Botanical Garden,St. Louis.
SOU_5 South America Bolivia vegetation 1:250,000 1993 Plan de uso del suelo M. Steininger personal collection produced by Cordercruz-Consorcio IP/CES/KEW Spanish Santa Cruz only.
GLO_1 (Global) (Global) Land Cover Types 1:15,000,000 (lat/long) 1988 paper map UM, 2138F LeFrak "N. Asia" drawer Russian
GLO_2 (Global) (Global) Vegetation/ land cover 1:30,000,000 at equator (lat/long) 1982 Major Word Ecosystem Complexes Ranked by Carbon in Live Vegetation UM, 2138F LeFrak "Land Cover Maps" drawer English
GLO_3 (Global) (Global) land cover (1-degree resolution) (lat/long) satellite data from 1987 digital map WWW http://www.geog.umd.edu/landcover/1d-map.html English from multitemporal AVHRR-derived NDVI
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