Existing
vegetation cover data v1.3.0 [website].
For their study, published Nov. 8, 2016, in Environmental Research Letters, the researchers first analyzed
vegetation cover data for the months leading up to the storm to see if the Syrian conflict had really changed the land cover that much.
Not exact matches
The research team used satellite
data to analyse changes in global
vegetation cover from 2000 to 2015 and link these to changes in the surface energy balance.
As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide
data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land
covered by
vegetation.
It looks like NCAR has the variable
Vegetation Species for the NCEP / NCAR Reanalysis at http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds090.0/#description The University of Maryland table describing the land cover for 1 degree data from which the NCEP / NCAR vegetation species is presumably derived is at http://glcf.umd.edu/data/landcover/ (after consulting with Mike Ek
Vegetation Species for the NCEP / NCAR Reanalysis at http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds090.0/#description The University of Maryland table describing the land
cover for 1 degree
data from which the NCEP / NCAR
vegetation species is presumably derived is at http://glcf.umd.edu/data/landcover/ (after consulting with Mike Ek
vegetation species is presumably derived is at http://glcf.umd.edu/
data/landcover/ (after consulting with Mike Ek of NOAA).
I wonder why only five weather stations out of ~ 6000 were chosen... - gavin] Because in all probability there are only five rural, continental US stations with
data from 1905 to 2003 which can be guaranteed to have not to have suffered changes in building
cover,
vegetation, irrigation,..
It uses satellite
data from MODIS
vegetation indices (MOD13Q1 and NDVI) and products related to presence of water bodies (MOD35) as well as Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation
data to detect anthropogenic changes in
vegetation cover every 16 days.
Global
vegetation cover changes from coarse resolution satellite
data.