MODIS Vegetative Cover Conversion

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GLCF editions of MODIS products differ from DAAC editions by coming in GeoTIFF format, geographic coordinates, WGS84 datum, and a tiling system designed to fit well with Landsat imagery.

Overview

The Vegetative Cover Conversion (VCC) is an annual data product that reports on changes in land cover at 250m meter spatial resolution. VCC is derived from all seven bands of 16-day composited imagery captured by the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Please note that this is an alarm product and that due to coarse resolution there are bound to be errors of omission. The provisional edition currently available online depicts global change due to vegetation burning and change within the tropics due to anthropogenic deforestation. Portions of Africa, the Philippines and the Caribbean will be released in a later edition. Comments on this product are welcome.

Code Values

Values for the Burn and Deforestation layers (not the QA layers)

Value	Label
0	No Change
1	Change
251	Water (burn product only)
254	Fill (null)
255	Undetermined (due to insufficient input data)

How to Cite This Data Set

Citation Format: Author (Publication Date), Collection Name, Product Name {optional}, Version, Collection Publisher, Publisher Location, Product Coverage Date {optional}.

Citation Parameters Example:

Author: Carroll, M.L., C.M. DiMiceli, J.R.G. Townshend, R.A. Sohlberg, M.C. Hansen, and R.S. DeFries
Publication Date: (2006)
Collection Name: Vegetative Cover Conversion MOD44A
Product Name: Burned Vegetation (other option is Deforestation)
Version: Collection 4
Publisher: University of Maryland
Publisher Location: College Park, Maryland
Product Coverage Date: 2004

Full Example Citation: Carroll, M.L., C.M. DiMiceli, J.R.G. Townshend, R.A. Sohlberg, M.C. Hansen, R.S. DeFries (2006), Vegetative Cover Conversion MOD44A, Burned Vegetation, Collection 4, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2004.

Associated Peer-Reviewed Publication: Zhan, X., R. Sohlberg, J.R.G. Townshend, C.M. DiMiceli, M.L. Carroll, J.C. Eastman, M.C. Hansen, R.S. Defries (2002), Detection of land cover changes using MODIS 250 meter data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 336-350.

Intellectual Property Rights

University of Maryland; Department of Geography; use is free to all if acknowledgement is made. UMD holds ultimate copyright.

Source

Source for this data set is the Global Land Cover Facility, www.landcover.org.