Tabla. Mapas específicos de cobertura de suelo para Sudamérica o Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Producto Siglas Sensor satelital Resolución espacial [m] Año Clases Exactitud global [%] Referencia Acceso
Global land cover 2000, South America GLC2000 SPOT-VGT 1000 2000 40+ NA Eva et al. 2004
South America land cover   ENVISAT-MERIS 300m 2008, 2010 9 NA Hojas Gascon et al. 2012 NA
Annual land cover time series for Latin America and the Caribbean   Terra-MODIS 250 m 2000-2010 anual 8 80 Clark et al. 2012 NA

Referencias
  • Clark, M.L., Aide, T.M., Riner, G., 2012. Land change for all municipalities in Latin America and the Caribbean assessed from 250-m MODIS imagery (2001-2010). Remote Sensing of Environment, 126, 84-103.
  • Eva, H., Belward, A., De Miranda, E., Di Bella, C., Gond, V., Huber, O., Jones, S., Sgrenzaroli, M. Fritz, S., 2004. A land cover map of South America, Global Change Biology, 10, 731–744.
  • Hojas Gascon, L. H., Eva, H. D., Gobron, N., Simonetti, D., Fritz, S., 2012. The Application of Medium-Resolution MERIS Satellite Data for Continental Land-Cover Mapping over South America-Results and Caveats, En C. P. Giri (Ed.). Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover: Principles and Applications. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC/Taylor & Francis.