Use of data from the VEGETATION instrument for global environmental monitoring: some lessons from the GLC 2000 and the GBA 2000 projects

Author

Bartholomé, E. ; Belward, A.S. ; Achard, F. ; Bartalev, S. ; Carmona-Moreno, C. ; Eva, H. ; Fritz, S. ; Grégoire, J.M. ; Mayaux, P. ; Stibig, H.-J. ; Tansey, K.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Environ. & Sustainability, Joint Res. Centre- Eur. Comm., Ispra, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

576

Abstract

Daily global mosaics of data acquired by the VEGETATION instrument onboard the SPOT 4 between Nov. 1st, 1999 and Dec. 31st, 2000 have been used to produce a reference high quality global land cover map (GLC 2000) and the global survey of burned surfaces (GBA 2000). These products have been generated through an international partnership coordinated by the Joint Research Centre and are now freely available to users. This paper reviews briefly the results achieved and provides an assessment of the specific properties of the VEGETATION data for land cover and burn scar mapping at continental to global scales.

Keywords

data acquisition; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; AD 1999 11 01; AD 2002 12 31; GBA 2000 project; GLC 2000 project; Joint Research Centre; SPOT 4; VEGETATION instrument; burn scar mapping; burned surfaces; global environmental monitoring; global land cover map; global survey; Aerosols; Atmosphere; Fires; Global warming; Instruments; Land surface; Monitoring; Notice of Violation; Vegetation mapping; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293847

Filename

1293847