The Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) and Vegetative Cover Conversion (VCC) products provide estimates of global and regional vegetation cover for the study of biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem assessment, and land management. The VCF product provides global sub-pixel estimates of landscape components (tree cover, herbaceous cover, and bare cover) at 500m. The VCC data set provides quarterly identification of land cover change hot spots at 250m.

Product PI: John Townshend
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See links below to the Product Description pages posted at the EDC DAAC (product details, data access links, user guides and more....)

Product Name

Vegetation Cover Conversion 96-Day L3 Global 250m

Vegetation Continuous Fields Yearly L4 Global 500m

Terra Product ID

MOD44A

MOD44B

Aqua Product ID

none

none

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Last Updated: January 14, 2008