A 2001–2015 Archive of Fractional Cover of Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation for Beijing and Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region
Abstract
:1. Summary
2. Data Description
2.1. Data and Metadata
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- Fractional cover of PV (%)
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- Fractional cover of NPV (%)
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- Fractional cover of bare soil (%)
2.2. Metadata
2.3. Dataset
- Characters 1–5: region name (btssr)
- Characters 6–7: variable name (pv, np, or bs)
- Characters 8–11: year (2001 to 2015)
- Characters 12–13: month (01 to 12)
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Materials
3.1.1. Remotely Sensed Data
3.1.2. Field Spectroscopy
3.1.3. In Situ Fractional Ground Cover Data
3.2. Methods
3.2.1. Linear Spectral Mixture Model (LSMM)
3.2.2. Unmixing Technique
3.2.3. Accuracy Assessment
4. User Notes
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristic | Description |
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Data format | GeoTiff |
Data type | Unsigned integer |
Time span | 2001–2015 |
Coordinate system | latitude/longitude WGS84 (EPSG:4326) |
Image dimensions | 2612 × 1765 (columns × rows) |
No data value | 255 |
Number of layers | 3 |
Spatial resolution | 0.004492 |
Data range | 0–100 |
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Li, X.; Li, Z.; Ji, C.; Wang, H.; Sun, B.; Wu, B.; Gao, Z. A 2001–2015 Archive of Fractional Cover of Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation for Beijing and Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region. Data 2017, 2, 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/data2030027
Li X, Li Z, Ji C, Wang H, Sun B, Wu B, Gao Z. A 2001–2015 Archive of Fractional Cover of Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation for Beijing and Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region. Data. 2017; 2(3):27. https://doi.org/10.3390/data2030027
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Xiaosong, Zengyuan Li, Cuicui Ji, Hongyan Wang, Bin Sun, Bo Wu, and Zhihai Gao. 2017. "A 2001–2015 Archive of Fractional Cover of Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation for Beijing and Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region" Data 2, no. 3: 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/data2030027