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Matthews Global Distribution of Vegetation
ECOSYSTEMS Matthews vegetation index
The results of this analysis are available here as
a dataset
, including an interactive viewer and downloadable data files.
References
Matthews, E. 1983.
Global vegetation and land use: New high-resolution data bases for climate studies
.
J. Clim. Appl. Meteor.
22, 474-487.
Matthews, E. 1984.
Prescription of Land-surface Boundary Conditions in GISS GCM II: A Simple Method Based on High-resolution Vegetation Data Sets
.
NASA TM-86096. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, D.C.
This dataset
and its documentation are from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Vegetation Data Set. If you need more information, you should look
there
.