Description: Terrestrial ECOS WWF
Over the past eight years WWF's Conservation Science Program (CSP) has developed a biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. We term our biogeographic units ecoregions, which we define as a relatively large units of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities sharing a large majority of species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. Ecoregions represent the original distribution of distinct assemblages of species and communities. There are multiple uses for the terrestrial ecoregion map in our efforts to conserve biodiversity around the world.
Description: GLWD-1 represents a global polygon map of large lakes to which existing lake registers, compilations or remote sensing data can be linked and georeferenced.
Copyright Text: Bernhard Lehner and Petra Doell. World Wildlife Fund US, Washington DC, USA. Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany. Restricted to non-commercial scientific, conservation and educational purposes.
Description: Global Fire Data derived from MODIS, provided by University of Maryland Firest Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
"Global Fire Data derived from MODIS, provided by University of Maryland Firest Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
FIRMS delivers active fires detected using the MODIS active fire locations processed by NASA.
MODIS (MOderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensors on-board NASA's EOS Terra and Aqua satellites.
FIRMS was developed by the University of Maryland with funds from NASA’s Applied Sciences Program and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
NASA/University of Maryland, 2002. MODIS Hotspot / Active Fire Detections. Data set. MODIS Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC [producer], University of Maryland, Fire Information for Resource Management System [distributors].
Description: Global Fire Data derived from MODIS, provided by University of Maryland Firest Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
"Global Fire Data derived from MODIS, provided by University of Maryland Firest Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
FIRMS delivers active fires detected using the MODIS active fire locations processed by NASA.
MODIS (MOderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensors on-board NASA's EOS Terra and Aqua satellites.
FIRMS was developed by the University of Maryland with funds from NASA’s Applied Sciences Program and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
NASA/University of Maryland, 2002. MODIS Hotspot / Active Fire Detections. Data set. MODIS Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC [producer], University of Maryland, Fire Information for Resource Management System [distributors].