Data Set "DSP01_AVHRR_LAND_COVER_95"
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Revised: November 22, 2000


BOREAS Follow-on DSP-1 NBIOME Level-4 AVHRR Land Cover of Canada 1995 v1.1

This land cover product was produced by NBIOME to generate an up-to-date,
spatially and temporally consistent land cover map of the landmass of Canada for
use by scientists and other users interested in environmental information at
national and regional scales. The data were acquired by CCRS and were provided
to BORIS for use. This data set is gridded and was produced from 10-day
composite data of surface parameters. Temporally, the 10-day compositing periods
begin 11-April-95 and ends 31-Oct-95. Spatially, the data cover the entire
landmass of Canada. The data are stored in binary image format files. Note that
some of the data files on the BOREAS CD-ROMs have been compressed using Zip
compression.

Acknowledge: Josef Cihlar, Jean Beaubien, Bill Park


File Inventory Information
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There are two forms of this data set. One is a flat binary image file, the
other is a GIF image with color and annotation. The GIF image was originally
delivered as a TIFF image that was quite large. The GIF image is available
in two sizes: "canada_landcover_95.gif" (6000x4800 pixels, 3.7 Mb) and 
"canada_landcover_95_sm.gif" (800x640 pixels, 212K). The binary image
"canada_landcover_95.img" has been Zip compressed, and is a single-byte
(8-bit) image with a size of 5700 pixels by 4800 lines.