Gridded Global Cultivation Intensities

Dataset · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/1464209· OSTI ID:1464209

Matthews, Elaine ^[1]

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1. Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute for Space Studies; ESS-DIVE

Global digital databases of natural vegetation and land use were compiled, for use in climate studies, at 1 degree resolution from over 100 published sources. A series of 6 data sets, derived from the original compilations, was prepared and archived on tape at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (Matthews, 1984). The first is a vegetation data set representing natural (pre-agricultural) vegetation based on the UNESCO classification system. The second, this database, derived from the land-use compilation, is a cultivation-intensity data set defining the areal extent of presently-cultivated land in 1 degree cells. *Note: this is a Gridded Cultivation Intensities [values range from 1(min) to 5(max)] (1 degree x 1 degree).

• Research Organization: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
• OSTI ID: 1464209
• Report Number(s): cdiac:Cultivation_Intensities_Matthews
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Land
Dimension
Elaine Matthews
Gridded Cultivation Intensities
Gridded Cultivation Intensities [values range from 1(min) to 5(max)] (1 degree x 1 degree)
Max.
Min.
Number of Records in Data File
Scale
cultivated Land