Products and Datasets

Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000)

Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2000) Overview

Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) FAQ's

Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC) Background

The SPOT Historical archive holdings were received from the SPOT IMAGE Corporation in 1999. The French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), owns and operates the SPOT satellite system and worldwide commercial operations are anchored by private companies (i.e., SPOT IMAGE Corp. of the United States and other distributors around the world).

SPOT Controlled Image Base is an orthorectified product derived from panchromatic images with a 10-meter ground sample distance. Coverage is limited to portions of the United States, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, North and South Korea, Central America, western Russia, and other smaller areas around the world. (1986-1993)

A global land cover database primarily derived from 1992 to 1993 1-km AVHRR data.

Interferometry and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) - An Overview

Final SRTM Data Coverage Maps

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) - Mission Summary

Global 1-km digital raster data derived from a variety of sources.

A global hydrologic database derived from 1996 GTOPO30 data.