N: 75 S: 35.1659 E: 170 W: 19.8165
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This data set is a 1:15 million scale forest cover map for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. Twenty-two land cover classes are distinguished, of which 20 are forest cover classes. The source data were acquired by map digitization from the Atlas of Forests of the USSR (Anon. 1973) which was likely based on forestry data from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Product Summary
Platforms
NOT APPLICABLE
Instruments
NOT APPLICABLE
Projects
Vegetation
Spatial Extent
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1973-01-01 to 1973-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2810671352-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Forests
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Stone, T. A., & Schlesinger, P. (2003). RLC Forest Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1973 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/692 Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
@article{stone_schlesinger_2003,
title={RLC Forest Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1973},
url={https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/ornl-cloud-rlc-forest-map-1973-692-1},
DOI={10.3334/ORNLDAAC/692},
abstractNote={This data set is a 1:15 million scale forest cover map for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. Twenty-two land cover classes are distinguished, of which 20 are forest cover classes. The source data were acquired by map digitization from the Atlas of Forests of the USSR (Anon. 1973) which was likely based on forestry data from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.},
publisher={ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center},
author={Stone, T.A. and Schlesinger, P.},
year={2003},
language={en},
}
Stone, T. A., & Schlesinger, P. (2003). RLC Forest Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1973 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/692 Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
Stone, T.A., and P. Schlesinger. “RLC Forest Cover of the Former Soviet Union, 1973.” With ORNL DAAC, Version 1, ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center, 1 Jan. 2003, https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/692. Date Accessed: 2026-09-12
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