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Description

This dataset is a 1:4 million scale vegetation map for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. Three hundred seventy-three cover classes are distinguished, of which nearly 145 are forest cover-related classes. Stone and Schlesinger (1993) digitized the map Vegetation of the Soviet Union, 1990 (Institute of Geography, 1990).

Product Summary

Platforms
MAPS
Instruments
DIGITIZER
Projects
Vegetation
Spatial Extent

N: 75 S: 35.1659 E: 170 W: 19.8165

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1973-01-01 to 1973-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2810672200-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
4
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Vegetation Cover ,
Land Use/Land Cover Classification

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Stone, T. A., & Schlesinger, P. (2003). RLC Vegetative Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1990 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/700 Date Accessed: 2026-08-04

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Diatom shifts and limnological changes in a Siberian boreal lake: a multiproxy perspective on climate warming and anthropogenic air pollution Stieg, Amelie, Biskaborn, Boris K., Herzschuh, Ulrike, Marent, Andreas, Strauss, Jens, Wilhelms-Dick, Dorothee, Pestryakova, Luidmila A., Meyer, Hanno Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Preservation of sedimentary plant DNA is related to lake water chemistry Jia, Weihan, Liu, Xingqi, StoofLeichsenring, Kathleen R., Liu, Sisi, Li, Kai, Herzschuh, Ulrike Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Plant sedimentary DNA as a proxy for vegetation reconstruction in eastern and northern Asia Li, Kai, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R., Liu, Sisi, Jia, Weihan, Liao, Mengna, Liu, Xingqi, Ni, Jian, Herzschuh, Ulrike Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions Wang, Chuan-Chao, Reinhold, Sabine, Kalmykov, Alexey, Wissgott, Antje, Brandt, Guido, Jeong, Choongwon, Cheronet, Olivia, Ferry, Matthew, Harney, Eadaoin, Keating, Denise, Mallick, Swapan, Rohland, Nadin, Stewardson, Kristin, Kantorovich, Anatoly R., Maslov, Vladimir E., Petrenko, Vladimira G., Erlikh, Vladimir R., Atabiev, Biaslan Ch., Magomedov, Rabadan G., Kohl, Philipp L., Alt, Kurt W., Pichler, Sandra L., Gerling, Claudia, Meller, Harald, Vardanyan, Benik, Yeganyan, Larisa, Rezepkin, Alexey D., Mariaschk, Dirk, Berezina, Natalia, Gresky, Julia, Fuchs, Katharina, Knipper, Corina, Schiffels, Stephan, Balanovska, Elena, Balanovsky, Oleg, Mathieson, Iain, Higham, Thomas, Berezin, Yakov B., Buzhilova, Alexandra, Trifonov, Viktor, Pinhasi, Ron, Belinskij, Andrej B., Reich, David, Hansen, Svend, Krause, Johannes, Haak, Wolfgang Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Biome changes in Asia since the mid-Holocenean analysis of different transient Earth system model simulations Dallmeyer, Anne, Claussen, Martin, Ni, Jian, Cao, Xianyong, Wang, Yongbo, Fischer, Nils, Pfeiffer, Madlene, Jin, Liya, Khon, Vyacheslav, Wagner, Sebastian, Haberkorn, Kerstin, Herzschuh, Ulrike Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Vegetation, climate and lake changes over the last 7000 years at the boreal treeline in north-central Siberia Klemm, Juliane, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Pestryakova, Luidmila A. Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Vegetation and lake changes on the southern Taymyr peninsula, northern Siberia, during the last 300 years inferred from pollen and Pediastrum green algae records Niemeyer, Bastian, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Pestryakova, Luidmila Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Sensitivity of Siberian larch forests to climate change SHUMAN, JACQUELYN KREMPER, SHUGART, HERMAN HENRY, O'HALLORAN, THOMAS LIAM Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Investigation of the 2010 JulyAugust fires impact on carbon monoxide atmospheric pollution in Moscow and its outskirts, estimating of emissions Fokeeva, E. V., Safronov, A. N., Rakitin, V. S., Yurganov, L. N., Grechko, E. I., Shumskii, R. A. Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
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