GLC 2000

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GLC 2000 Land Cover Database of North America
Workshop GLC 2000 Final Results Ispra, Italy
21-24/03/2003
Rasim.Latifovic_at_NRCan.gc.ca
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Legend conversion table for NVSC (FGDC), LCCS and
IGBP
 
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Accuracy assessment Building confidence
Classification
RNIR GSWIR BRED
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Landsat
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Quantitative accuracy assessment
Reference data
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Source Centre de foresterie des
Laurentides Service canadien des forêts
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Assessment of reference data
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Distribution of homogeneity in 1km pixel over
Canada
Dominant fraction in 1km pixel
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Areal comparison
The IGBP Global land cover classification
produced by U.S. Geological Survey for the
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IGBP
(Loveland et al., 2000) The UMd global land
cover classification produced by University
Maryland (Hansen et al., 2000) The UMB MODIS
Global land cover classification produced by
University Boston (Hodges 2001) and GLC2000_NA
North America 2000 Land Cover database, here
presented
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Per pixel comparison
Agreement in depicting the forest area over
North America among analysed land cover maps
GLC 2000NA -IGBP
GLC 2000NA -UMD
Agreement
Disagreement non-forest / forest
Disagreement forest / non-forest
GLC 2000NA -UMB
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Outputs
Database NRCan and USGS (2003) Land Cover
Database of North America 2000 ftp//ftp.ccrs.nrc
an.gc.ca/ftp/ad/EMS/Landcover2000/
Papers in progress Latifovic, R., Zhu, Z.,
Cihlar,J., Giri, C., and Olthof, I. (2003) Land
Cover Mapping of North America - Global Land
Cover 2000 Latifovic, R., Olthof, I., and Fraser
R., Assessing the accuracy of remote sensing
based large scaled land cover data
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Poster
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CCRS Team
USGS Team
Rasim Latifovic Cihlar Josef Jean Beaubien Ian
Olthof Robert Fraser
Zhi-Liang Zhu Chandra Giri
Acknowledgements We also gratefully acknowledge
the support of the Canadian Space Agency for this
study, the Centre national detudes spatiales and
European Union for the provision of 2000 VGT data
and National Aeronautic and Space Administration
for the provision of some ETM scenes as part of
Satellite Information for the Landcover of Canada
(SILC) project.