Land Cover Classification Mapping Earth's Diverse Landscapes Differentiating Between Land Cover Types The Basic Vegetation Map The Problems in Uncovering Land Cover Related Data Sets: Biosphere 1km2 AVHRR Fires 4km2 TRMM Fires Vegetation Related Case Studies: Spotting the Spotted Owl Fire!
	The Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) movie above shows landcover over the entire globe—just click and drag on the globe to rotate it. It is based on data from the University of Maryland Laboratory for Global Remote Sensing Studies Global Land Cover Project. (To compare landcover to other data in the Earth Observatory, go to the Observation Deck.)
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