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Uses a globally consistent methodology for all three reconstructions. The annual land-use conversion maps contain the area transitioned (as percentage of grid cell area) for each of the 92 unique conversions possible.ġ. The annual land-cover maps contain the area (as percentage of grid cell area) of 28 land-cover types within each 0.5x0.5 degree grid cell. ISAM-HYDE estimates cover the period 1770-2010 ISAM-RF estimates cover the period 1770-2007 ISAM-HH estimates cover the period 1770-2005. The three estimates developed based on three agricultural datasets (HYDE, RF and HH) are referred to as ISAM-HYDE, ISAM-RF and ISAM-HH respectively. The land-cover maps produced for recent years are consistent with MODIS satellite estimates. 2010) as boundary conditions to implicitly account for unaccounted land-cover change. The method of reconstruction utilized multiple years of MODIS land cover data (Friedl et al. All the three estimates used common wood harvest and urban land data based on Hurtt et al. 2011) and HH data (Houghton 2008 - estimates based on FAO 2006). Three distinct estimates of land-cover change and land-use conversions were reconstructed using three different datasets on cropland and pastureland based on RF data (updated estimates based on Ramankutty and Foley, 1999), HYDE data (HYDE 3.1 'baseline' scenario - Klein Goldewijk et al. These datasets describe annual historical changes in land cover and underlying land-use conversions at 0.5 °x0.5 ° resolution. The following was contributed by Prasanth Meiyappan (U Illinois), September, 2012: Users should be aware that the estimates are a function of the methodolgy and assumptions made and the sensitivities to the assumptions have not been fully analyzed. The resulting land-cover maps are intended to be useful for studies involving interactions between land-cover and climate, biophysics, biogeochemistry, and the global water and carbon cycles.
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The land-use conversion maps are reported as the percentage of the grid cell area transformed for each of 92 possible land-use conversions. The land-cover maps are reported as the percentage of grid cell area containing each of 28 land cover types.
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The three estimates use a consistent methodology, and start and end with common land-cover maps, taking different courses from the starting map to the finish map. Common input data sets are of wood harvest and urban land. The three estimates use three different data sets of cropland and pastureland. The longest of the three estimates spans 1770-2010. A set of three estimates of land-cover types and annual transformations of land use are provided on a global 0.5°x0.5° grid at annual timesteps.