Terrestrial Biodiversity Adaptation Research Network

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Home Reports Global Ecosystems
Global Ecosystems PDF Print E-mail
GIS Layers, Resources, Environmental Data
Friday, 29 January 2010 11:18

Description

The Australia/Pacific land cover data base is one portion of a global land cover characteristics data base that was developed on a continent-by-continent basis. All continents in the global data base share the same map projections (Interrupted Goode Homolosine and Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area), have 1-km nominal spatial resolution, and are based on 1-km AVHRR data spanning April 1992 through March 1993 (Loveland and others, 1999). Each continental data base has unique elements that are based on the salient geographic aspects of the specific continent. In addition, a core set of derived thematic maps produced through the aggregation of seasonal land cover regions are included in each continental data base. These are:
  • Global Ecosystems (Olson, 1994a, 1994b)
  • IGBP Land Cover Classification (Belward, 1996)
  • U.S. Geological Survey Land Use/Land Cover System (Anderson and others, 1976)
  • Simple Biosphere Model (Sellers and others, 1986)
  • Simple Biosphere 2 Model (Sellers and others, 1996)
  • Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (Dickinson and others, 1986)
  • Vegetation Lifeforms (Running and others, 1994)
Global Ecosystems Legend
Value
Description
1
Urban
2
Low Sparse Grassland
3
Coniferous Forest
4
Deciduous Conifer Forest
5
Deciduous Broadleaf Forest
6
Evergreen Broadleaf Forests
7
Tall Grasses and Shrubs
8
Bare Desert
9
Upland Tundra
10
Irrigated Grassland
11
Semi Desert
12
Glacier Ice
13
Wooded Wet Swamp
14
Inland Water
15
Sea Water
16
Shrub Evergreen
17
Shrub Deciduous
18
Mixed Forest and Field
19
Evergreen Forest and Fields
20
Cool Rain Forest
21
Conifer Boreal Forest
22
Cool Conifer Forest
23
Cool Mixed Forest
24
Mixed Forest
25
Cool Broadleaf Forest
26
Deciduous Broadleaf Forest
27
Conifer Forest
28
Montane Tropical Forests
29
Seasonal Tropical Forest
30
Cool Crops and Towns
31
Crops and Town
32
Dry Tropical Woods
33
Tropical Rainforest
34
Tropical Degraded Forest
35
Corn and Beans Cropland
36
Rice Paddy and Field
37
Hot Irrigated Cropland
38
Cool Irrigated Cropland
39
Cold Irrigated Cropland
40
Cool Grasses and Shrubs
41
Hot and Mild Grasses and Shrubs
42
Cold Grassland
43
Savanna (Woods)
44
Mire, Bog, Fen
45
Marsh Wetland
46
Mediterranean Scrub
47
Dry Woody Scrub
48
Dry Evergreen Woods
49
Volcanic Rock
50
Sand Desert
51
Semi Desert Shrubs
52
Semi Desert Sage
53
Barren Tundra
54
Cool Southern Hemisphere Mixed Forests
55
Cool Fields and Woods
56
Forest and Field
57
Cool Forest and Field
58
Fields and Woody Savanna
59
Succulent and Thorn Scrub
60
Small Leaf Mixed Woods
61
Deciduous and Mixed Boreal Forest
62
Narrow Conifers
63
Wooded Tundra
64
Heath Scrub
65
Coastal Wetland, NW
66
Coastal Wetland, NE
67
Coastal Wetland, SE
68
Coastal Wetland, SW
69
Polar and Alpine Desert
70
Glacier Rock
71
Salt Playas
72
Mangrove
73
Water and Island Fringe
74
Land, Water, and Shore
75
Land and Water, Rivers
76
Crop and Water Mixtures
77
Southern Hemisphere Conifers
78
Southern Hemisphere Mixed Forest
79
Wet Sclerophylic Forest
80
Coastline Fringe
81
Beaches and Dunes
82
Sparse Dunes and Ridges
83
Bare Coastal Dunes
84
Residual Dunes and Beaches
85
Compound Coastlines
86
Rocky Cliffs and Slopes
87
Sandy Grassland and Shrubs
88
Bamboo
89
Moist Eucalyptus
90
Rain Green Tropical Forest
91
Woody Savanna
92
Broadleaf Crops
93
Grass Crops
94
Crops, Grass, Shrubs
95
Evergreen Tree Crop
96
Deciduous Tree Crop
 
 
View Resource
 
USGS is an unbiased, multi-disciplinary science organization that focuses on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water, dedicated to the timely, relevant, and impartial study of the landscape, our natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten us.
USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. public domain.

 

 

SUMMARY
Type of data
GIS Dataset
Function
Ecosystem types
Format
raster
Licence
Public Domain. Cost free download
Coverage
Australia and Pacific
Resolution/Scale
1000 metres
Coordinate System and Datum
Interrupted Goode Homolosine, Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
Spatial Extent
Longitude of origin: 135 00 00 E
Latitude of origin: 15 00 00 S
Source
USGS
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:08