Global bare land

land cover

High-resolution map of the global extent of bare land as of 2010

Details

This dataset is a 300-m aggregated of the 30-m resolution dataset on sub-pixel proportions of bare land derived by Hansen et al. (2013). This dataset is a bi-product of the Global Forest Change (GFC) dataset.

Subdatasets

percentCover | Per-pixel densities of bare land (%)
content description
value_range 0…100

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GBL")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("GBL/percentCover")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GBL/percentCover/300m")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher, Turubanova, Tyukavina, Thau, Stehman, Goetz, Loveland, Kommareddy, Egorov, Chini, Justice, and Townshend (2013)