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Description

The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) archives and distributes Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) data products through the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program. The GFCC Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global dataset provides estimates of changes in forest cover from 1990 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2005 at 30 meter spatial resolution. The GFCC30FCC product represents a global record of fine-scale changes in forest dynamics between observation periods. The forest cover change product was generated from the GFCC Tree Cover (GFCC30TC) product which is based on Global Land Survey (GLS) data acquired by the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors.

Each forest cover product has two GeoTIFF files associated with it; a change map file and a change probability file. Data follow the Worldwide Reference System-2 tiling scheme. Additional details regarding the methodology used to create the data are available in the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD).

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-5,
LANDSAT-7,
Terra
Instruments
ASTER,
ETM+,
MODIS,
TM
Spatial Extent
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Spatial Resolution
30 Meters x 30 Meters
Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
1990-01-01 to 2004-12-31
Temporal Resolution
5 Year
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)
Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland (UMD/GLCF)
Concept ID
c2763259410-lpcloud
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Townshend, J. (2016). Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global 30 m V001 [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/GFCC/GFCC30FCC.001 Date Accessed: 2025-06-21

Data Center Citation

John Townshend. 2017. Global Forest Cover Change (GFCC) Forest Cover Change Multi-Year Global 30 m V001. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA: NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/GFCC/GFCC30FCC.001.

Documents

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD) The ATBD provides physical theory and mathematical procedures for the calculations used to produce the data products.
USER'S GUIDE The technical information in the User's Guide enables users to interpret and use the data products.

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