gm_ve_v2 en 004 International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) +81 29 864 6910 +81 29 864 8087

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http://www.iscgm.org/ 007 2013-07-19 Global Map Metadata Profile 2.0 Geographic WGS84 WGS84 2013-07-19 002 Version 2.0 The Global Percent Tree Cover represents the density of trees on the ground. The data shows the ratio of the vertically projected area of tree canopy to the unit area of ground surface. Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Chiba University and collaborating organizations Geospatial Information Authority of Japan +81 29 864 1564 +81 29 864 6923

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http://www.gsi.go.jp/ 006 Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University

1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku Chiba Chiba 263-8522 Japan

http://www.cr.chiba-u.jp/index.html 006 International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) +81 29 864 6910 +81 29 864 8087

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http://www.iscgm.org/ 005 Users who wish to use data shall write in the necessary items on Registration for the Use of Global Map form in the Home page of ISCGM. For more information, please see "Agreement for use" (http://www.iscgm.org/). 001 Users shall mark the data source and indicate copyright on the product when they used the data in order to make known that they used the data for their products. 002 15 arcsecond en 004 002 010 012 This data set covers the whole world. -180 180 -90 90 BIL (Band Interleaved by Line), Geotiff - http://www.iscgm.org/ 005 Global Map Vegetation layer- Global Percent Tree Cover version 2 was developed using MODIS 2008 data.