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LAND COVER - Database
Source
Nilsson S., Stolbovoi V., and A. Shvidenko, Land Resources of Russia
CD-ROM.
Technical Description
The albedo map displayed under land cover can be generated from the
albedo item found in the vegetation database. Please refer to vegetation
for a description of Albedo.
The land cover map is stored as a raster image file. A separate file is included for download that contains the land cover class names that link to the value numbers. This map was generated through a combination of multiple spatial datasets in an iterative process that assigned geographic areas to one of six land classes to match, as closely as possible, the State Land and State Forest Accounts area distribution. It has a scale of 1:4 million.
Coverage Definition
| Coverage | Data Type | Fields | Description |
| Vegetation | Poly | Albedo | Mean annual albedo (%) |
| Land Cover | Grid | value | Land cover classes |
