non-vegetated land classes. For complete metadata see: http://mercury.ornl.gov/ornldaac/send/xsltText2?fileURL=d%3A%5Cmercury\_instances%5Corn ldaac%5Crgd%5Charvested%5Crecord263.xml&full\_datasource=Regional+and+Global+Data& full\_queryString=+%28+title+%3A+MODIS+%28MCD12Q1%29+Land+Cover+Product+%29 +AND+%28+datasource+%3A%28+rgd++%29+%29+&ds\_id=Created+20101104+052449+by +66.82.162.21 Ecoregions Bailey-Division: Bailey-Division: Bailey Ecoregions Map of the Continents characterizes global climate and potential natural vegetation at approximately 1/2-degree resolution. The data set is based on a Russian vegetation map (Gerasimov, 1964) which was updated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Robert G. Bailey), however the geographic projection was unknown. This version was reprojected to geodetic coordinates at the World Conservation Monitoring Center, England. The data set consists of one independent spatial layer with three attributes. Citation: Bailey, R.G. and H.C. Hogg, 1986. A world ecoregions map for resource reporting. Environmental Conservation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 195-202. Bailey, R.G. 1989. Explanatory supplement to Ecoregions Map of the Continents. Environmental Conservation, vol. 16, no. 4, pp 307-309. For complete metadata see: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ecosys/cdroms/ged\_iib/datasets/b03/bec.htm Ecoregions Bailey-Domain: Bailey-Domain: Bailey Ecoregions Map of the Continents characterizes global climate and potential natural vegetation at approximately 1/2-degree resolution. The data set is based on a Russian vegetation map (Gerasimov, 1964) which was updated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Robert G. Bailey), however the geographic projection was unknown. This version was reprojected to geodetic coordinates at the World Conservation Monitoring Center, England. The data set consists of one independent spatial layer with three attributes. Citation: Bailey, R.G. and H.C. Hogg, 1986. A world ecoregions map for resource reporting. Environmental Conservation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 195-202. Bailey, R.G. 1989. Explanatory supplement to Ecoregions Map of the Continents. Environmental Conservation, vol. 16, no. 4, pp 307-309. For complete metadata see: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ecosys/cdroms/ged\_iib/datasets/b03/bec.htm Global Landcover: Landcover: The Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit carries out several activities related to Land Cover mapping and monitoring. In particular the GVM Unit is coordinating and implementing the Global Land Cover 2000 Project (GLC 2000) in collaboration with a network of partners around the world. The general objective is to provide for the year 2000 a harmonized land cover database over the whole globe. To achieve this objective GLC 2000 makes use of the VEGA 2000 dataset: a dataset of 14 months of pre-processed daily global data acquired by the VEGETATION instrument on board the SPOT 4 satellite, made available through a sponsorship from members of the VEGETATION programme, including JRC. Citation: Global Land Cover 2000 database. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 2003, http://www- gem.jrc.it/glc2000. For complete metadata see: http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/glc2000/products/GLC2000\_EUR\_20849EN.pdf