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Mapping Biomes
Recently (2008) the European Space Agency produced GlobCover (ESA GlobCover Project, led by MEDIAS-France), the highest resolution (300m) global land cover map to date. GlobCover uses 21 primary land cover classes and many more sub-classes. Land cover classification (LCC) schemes divide the earth into biomes. Biomes are the simplest way to classify vegetation which can [...]
November 20, 2009
Tags: ecosystem model, R Posted in: Agriculture, Land Cover Maps, ecosystem model 
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Black Swan White Mountain
Everyone knows that tree rings mark annual variations in tree growth. Biomass production is influenced by climatic variability (precipitation,temperature, sunlight) or disease, pests, fire etc. Tree rings can be measured very accurately and used to recover information about past climate over thousands of years.
The World Data Center for Paleoclimate (NOAA) maintains a tree ring database. [...]
May 26, 2009
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