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Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results

M. Friedl,D. McIver,10 Authors,C. Schaaf

2002 · DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00078-0
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TLDR

This product provides maps of global land cover at 1-km spatial resolution using several classification systems, principally that of the IGBP, and a supervised classification methodology is used that exploits a global database of training sites interpreted from high-resolution imagery in association with ancillary data.