Select land-use raster database (2)

[tomLandry]

Unsure if perfectly related, but a lot of coordination made by Nils on land degradation with the http://trends.earth/docs/en/ project. @huard see email "LDN Monitoring" dated March 27th 2018.

[richardarsenault]

There is a free-to-use Land-Cover raster available from the Land Cover Institute, it covers the entirety of North America at a 30km resolution:

http://www.cec.org/tools-and-resources/map-files/land-cover-2010-landsat-30m

[Zeitsperre]

We're already using CEC for a few other layers within PAVICS. This is easily integrable. There are finer resolution products available though. for instance, I mentioned MODIS (https://landcover.usgs.gov/global_climatology.php) on another issue.

Which spatial scale/extent are we most interested in?

Edit: Never mind, CEC Land Cover is at 30m, not 30Km. Much better than MODIS!

[richardarsenault]

I was going to say, I think 30m is way better than what we need, we can even reduce the resolution some to save some space/computing time.

[Zeitsperre]

This is being followed up on in #3