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This data set, ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001, contains global land cover classifications (dominant type, classification confidence and fractional cover) generated using a full year of MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data covering the period from October 2000 to October 2001. The objective of the MODIS Land Cover Product is to provide a suite of land cover types useful to global system science modelers by exploiting the information content of MODIS data in the spectral, temporal, spatial, and directional domains. These products describe the geographic distribution of the 17 land cover classification scheme proposed by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).
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Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H., Hodges, J., Hall, F. G., Collatz, G. J., Meeson, B. W., Los, S. O., Brown de Colstoun, E., & Landis, D. R. (2010). ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968
Date Accessed: 2026-11-01
@article{Friedl_Strahler_Hodges_Hall_Collatz_Meeson_Los_Brown de Colstoun_Landis_2010,
title={ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001},
url={https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/ornl-cloud-modis-landcover-xdeg-968-1},
DOI={10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968},
abstractNote={The objective of the MODIS Land Cover Product is to provide a suite of land cover types useful to global system science modelers by exploiting the information content of MODIS data in the spectral, temporal, spatial, and directional domains.
These are global land cover classifications (dominant type, classification confidence and fractional cover) generated using a full year of MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data covering the period from October 2000 to October 2001. These products describe the geographic distribution of the 17 land cover classification scheme proposed by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).},
publisher={ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center},
author={Friedl, M.A. and Strahler, A.H. and Hodges, J. and Hall, F.G. and Collatz, G.J. and Meeson, B.W. and Los, S.O. and Brown de Colstoun, E. and Landis, D.R.},
year={2010},
language={en},
}
Friedl, M.A., A.H. Strahler, J. Hodges, F.G. Hall, G.J. Collatz, B.W. Meeson, S.O. Los, E. Brown de Colstoun, and D.R. Landis. “ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001.” ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, January 1, 2010. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968.
Date Accessed: 2026-11-01
Friedl, M. A., et al. “ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) IGBP Land Cover, 2000-2001.” With ORNL DAAC, Version 1, ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, 1 Jan. 2010, https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968.
Date Accessed: 2026-11-01
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