Land cover and land-cover change from MODIS

Author

Strahler, Alan H. ; Moody, Aaron ; Lambin, Eric

Author_Institution

Center for Remote Sensing, Boston Univ., MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1535

Abstract

The MODIS land cover and land-cover change products are global products that will be derived from MODIS data following the launch of the MODIS instrument in 1998. The land cover product will provide about 20 classes of land cover based largely on major life-form vegetation types. The land-cover change product will recognize change processes, rather than simply document change with time from one cover category to another. Both products will be derived from a database of monthly composited MODIS products ranging from surface reflectance to surface temperature. The products will be available beginning 18 months (land cover) or 27 months (land-cover change) after launch

Keywords

geophysical techniques; remote sensing; MODIS; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; land-cover change; optical imaging; satellite remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; visible infrared; Atmospheric modeling; Biological system modeling; Databases; Earth; Instruments; Land surface; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Ocean temperature; Reflectivity; Sea surface; Surface resistance; Temperature distribution; Vegetation; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521802

Filename

521802