Global Forest Resources Assessment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
GIScCE, South Dakota State University


    

 

Sampling Tiles Database Search


This Search tool provides access to the pages that show the location of the sample tiles and enables you to download those for use in Google Earth or Geographic Information Systems. Samples of the Landsat satellite images that will be used in the study are also available for viewing and downloading. The Database consists of 13,689 sampling tiles. You can select each tile by typing Latitude and Longitude coordinates, or by using the Google Earth interface.

  

Select sample tiles using Google Earth interfase

                    Requires Google Earth software


           Select sample tiles using Lat/Long coordinates



  
Latitude   

 

Longitude   
    


Tiles catalog


ESRI Shape format


 Tiles locations (center points) [SHP]         

 Tiles outlines (10 x 10 km) [SHP]

 Tiles outlines (20 x 20 km) [SHP]

Google Earth KMZ format


 Tiles locations (center points) [KMZ]

 Tiles outlines (10 x 10 km) [KMZ]

 Tiles outlines (20 x 20 km) [KMZ]


Auxiliary information database


 Auxiliary data [DBF]




Landsat data granules


 Normalization codes [DBF]

 Landsat data granules count per tile [DBF]


 Landsat data for GLS 1990 catalog [DBF]

 Landsat data for GLS 2000 catalog [DBF]

 Landsat data for GLS 2005 catalog [DBF]




         

 

Landsat Imagery Database


This website is part of the collaboration between the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and its partners, including South Dakota State University and the United States Geological Survey's National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS). The data staged here are a contribution to the Global Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) Remote Sensing Survey. The website provides access to the location of the sample tiles and enables the download of associated data for use in Google Earth or Geographic Information Systems. Samples of the Landsat satellite images that will be used in the study are also available for viewing and downloading.

Database Sections


Sampling Grid
A FRA 2010 RSS framework of global systematic sampling design.


Sampling Tiles Database
A database of 13,689 sampling tiles located within land surface
(excluding Antarctic). The database includes tile catalog,
location maps, Landsat data and auxiliary information.


Pilot project data

A 400 tiles sample dataset with Landsat imagery.






Database status on 3/21/2009

 

Sampling land tiles total

      13,689

Landsat GLS 1990 data granules

      17,758

Landsat GLS 2000 data granules

      19,939

Landsat GLS 2005 data granules

      18,522