Satellite-based vegetation map (satellittbasert vegetasjonskart)

• Main Authors: Johansen, Bernt, Bjørdal, Are
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2009
• Subjects: BIOTA; ENVIRONMENT; IMAGERYBASEMAPSEARTHCOVER; biology; maps; vegetation; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION; PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; LAND SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHY; Arctic; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; North Atlantic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/7150ae15-d3be-5257-b49f-ee578a260e14

This seamless, generalized and consistent vegetation map covers the entire Svalbard archipelago. The map is based on a total of 13 Landsat TM/ETM+ images from the years 2000-2002. The images were processed through six operational stages: (1) spectral classification, (2) spectral similarity analysis,...