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- ab876543-15a7-4d0b-81b1-f0985aa57cb7
- Title
- BARBADOS LAND COVER v2
- Date
- Sept. 12, 2019, 2:42 p.m., Publication
- Abstract
- Land cover map of Barbados. Forest formation and land cover maps for several Caribbean islands were developed from satellite imagery as part of a multi-organizational project. For the map of Barbados (Helmer et al., 2008), we used decision tree software as the original approach to classify Landsat ETM+ images. Unfortunately the high cloud cover in the available Landsat images led to a low-quality classified map in many areas. Ikonos images for the years 2001 and 2002 where obtained and used as the basis to classify most of the island by "heads-up" digitizing. The forest classification scheme relates closely to that of Areces-Malea et al. (Areces-Mallea et al., 1999), with modifications similar to those in Helmer et al. (Helmer et al., 2002).
This is version 2 of the Barbados map. In this version, the high resolution imagery viewable on Google Earth was used to interpret land cover in areas that were cloud-obscured in the original map and imagery. In addition, a projection problem was corrected.
Citation: Helmer, E.H.; Kennaway, T.A.; Pedreros, D.H.; Clark, M.L.; Marcano-Vega, H.; Tieszen, L.L., Ruzycki, T.R.; Schill, S.R.; Carrington, C.M.S. 2008. Land cover and forest formation distributions for St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius, Grenada and Barbados from decision tree classification of cloud-cleared satellite imagery. Caribbean Journal of Science. 44(2):175-198.
Data are posted at the FSGeodata Clearinghouse (<https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/>).
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- Responsible
- leonardo.arias
- Point of Contact
- ARIAS ALEMAN
- leonardo.arias@invemar.org.co
- Purpose
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- Maintenance Frequency
- None
- Type
- not filled
- Restrictions
- None
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- License
- Not Specified
- Language
- eng
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- Supplemental Information
- Nessuna informazione fornita
- Data Quality
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- Extent
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- x0: 211210.549880027800000
- x1: 239650.549880027800000
- y0: 1442123.366319656000000
- y1: 1477283.366319656000000
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:32621
- Keywords
- no keywords
- Category
- Imagery Base Maps Earth Cover
- Regions
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Global
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Barbados