Medium Scale Global Landcover/Landform Grids

 

Table 1.  Landforms

Data set Resolution Categories Method Description Data download Software to create Using in MICRODEM to get default colors, category names, and bar graphs
Iwahashi & Pike classification   30.15"
(1000 m)		 16 Iwahashi and Pike, 2007 Automated classifications of topography from DEMs by an unsupervised nested means algorithm and a three-part geometric signature, Geomorphology, vol 86, no.3/4,  p.409-440. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.09.012
 Reuter, H., and Nelson, 2008, Landform Classification: European Soil Data Science Center, Joint Research Center, https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/landform-classification  and https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/global-landform-classification
Based on SRTM30 DEM		   File must have "IWAHASHI" in its name
Relief 30"
(1000 m)		 15 Meybeck, M., Green, P., and Vorosmarty, C., 2001, A new Typology for mountains and other relief classes: Mountain Research and Development, 21(1), 34-45, https://doi.org/10.1659/0276-4741(2001)021[0034:ANTFMA]2.0.CO;2
Reuter, H., and Nelson, 2008, Landform Classification: European Soil Data Science Center, Joint Research Center, https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/landform-classification  and https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/global-landform-classification
Probably based on SRTM30 DEM (not explicitly stated, but that was used for the companion classifiction, Iwahashi and Pike. )		   File must have "meybeck" in its name.  
Geomorphons 30"
(1000 m)		 10
  • Jasiewicz, J., and Stepinski, T., 2013, Geomorphons - a pattern recognition approach to classification and mapping of landforms, Geomorphology, vol. 182, 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.11.005
  • Amatulli, G., Domisch, S., Tuanmu, MN. et al. A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling. Sci Data 5, 180040 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.40
http://www.earthenv.org/topography  has 1 km geomorphons Whitebox File must have "geomorphon" in its name.
Pennock landform classification   7 Pennock,D.J., Zebarth,B.J., and De Jong,E., 1987. Landform Classification and Soil Distribution in Hummocky Terrain, Saskatchewan, Canada. Geoderma, 40: 297-315.   Whitebox  

 

Table 2.  Land Cover

Data set Resolution Categories Method Description Data download Using in MICRODEM to get default colors, category names, and bar graphs
Global Land Coverage 2000  1/112 degree
(1 km pixels)		        
Copernicus Annual 300 m Land Cover (CCI-LC) 10"
(300 m)		 38 ESA. Land Cover CCI Product User Guide Version 2. Tech. Rep. (2017). Available at http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/download/ESACCI-LC-Ph2-PUGv2_2.0.pdf http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/download.php  has 2015 300 m land cover File must have "ESACCI-LC-L4-LCCS" in its name.
Copernicus Global Land Cover (GLC100) 3.6" spacing (~100 m) 23 Buchhorn, M.; Smets, B.; Bertels, L.; Lesiv, M.; Tsendbazar, N.-E.; Masiliunas, D.; Linlin, L.; Herold, M.; Fritz, S. (2020). Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100m: Collection 3: epoch <2019>: Globe (Version V3.0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. DOI: <DOI>

https://lcviewer.vito.be/download

 

Most of these will depend on the DEM used to create them (some could only have used SRTM), and on breakpoints between the different classes.

 

 Last revision 4/2/2023