This data set provides a time series of land cover classifications for Ariquemes, Ji-Parana, and Luiza, research sites in Rondonia, Brazil. The land cover classifications are derived from the Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM), and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors. The time period ranges from June 1975 through June 2000, but all areas do not have images for all the years.
The LBA project was an international research initiative under the leadership of Brazil. The project focused on the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functions of Amazonia; the impact of land use change on these functions; and the interactions between Amazonia and the Earth system. The LBA-ECO component, which was funded by NASA, focused on the question: "How do tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon storage, nutrient dynamics, trace gas fluxes, and the prospect for sustainable land use in Amazonia?"
To view complete documentation and access the data, visit the data set Web page at http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1259
Data Acknowledgements
- Data authors: D.A. Roberts, I. Numata, K.W. Holmes, G.T. Batista, T. Krug, A.L. Monteiro, B. Powell, and O.A. Chadwick
- Data center: ORNL DAAC (http://daac.ornl.gov)
- Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS (http://earthdata.nasa.gov)
- Data Set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1259