Potential Vegetation
Citation Information
Title: Potential Vegetation Biomes
Source: Ramankutty and Foley (1999)
Date: 1999
Citation: Ramankutty N, Foley JA (1999) Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 13, 997-1027. [online] URL: http://www.sage.wisc.edu/download/potveg/global_potveg.html
Description
Potential vegetation biomes (12 clases). Native resolution is 5 arc minute projected in Geographic Coordinate System WGS 1984.
Code | Definition |
---|---|
0 | No Data |
1 | Tropical Evergreen Woodland |
2 | Tropical Deciduous Woodland |
3 | Temperate Evergreen Woodland |
4 | Temperate Deciduous Woodland |
5 | Boreal Woodland |
6 | Mixed Woodland |
7 | Savanna |
8 | Grassland and Steppe |
9 | Dense Shrubland |
10 | Open Shrubland |
11 | Tundra |
12 | Deserts and Barren |
Processing Procedure
1. In ArcMap 10.0, convert native data to 30 arc second resolution.
2. Use zonal statistics to calculate mean values within each GLU.
Data Coverage
Data is coded by the number of cells covered by the native data (1), data extrapolation (2), and not covered by either (3).
DGG Cell Coverage Report | |||||
Coverage Codes | Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent | |
Valid | 1 | 1382441 | 95.7 | 95.7 | 95.7 |
3 | 62523 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 100.0 | |
Total | 1444964 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
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