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Description

The Global Mangrove Forests Distribution, 2000 data set is a compilation of the extent of mangroves forests from the Global Land Survey and the Landsat archive with hybrid supervised and unsupervised digital image classification techniques. The data are available at 30-m spatial resolution. The total area of mangroves in the year 2000 was estimated at 137,760 km2 in 118 countries and territories in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

Product Summary

Platforms
LANDSAT-5
Instruments
TM
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
30 Decimal Degrees x 30 Decimal Degrees
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
C3550194192-ESDIS
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
111
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Mangroves ,
Sustainability ,
Climate Adaptation

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

Giri, C., Ochieng, E., Tieszen, L. L., Zhu, Z., Singh, A., Loveland, T., Masek, J., & Duke, N. (2013). Global Mangrove Forests Distribution, 2000 (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4J67DW8 Date Accessed: 2026-04-22

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