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extremely promising avenue for both land surface climatology research, and
for improvements of operational weather prediction.
5.
RELATED PROJECTS
The role of IGBP-DIS (Data and Information System) is to assist, as
needed, IGBP Core Projects in the development of their individual data
system plans; to help provide an overall data system plan for IGBP; to carry
out activities leading directly to the generation of data sets; to ensure the
development of effective data management systems and act, where
appropriate, to ensure the meeting of the data and information needs of IGBP
through international and national organizations and agencies. Thus, it
addresses the more technical aspects of data, such as the provision of
efficient data exchange mechanisms, meta-data and catalogues; the very
large volumes and novel character of many new data sets expected to be
available from space platforms in the next decade, with distinctive problems
of information manipulation and extraction; and the need to ensure the
provision of long-term data sets to detect significant global changes in
environmentally important parameters.
The IGBP Core Project Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
(GCTE) requires many large-scale data sets to develop a global vegetation
model, and for other modeling activities related to finer scale ecological
changes and impacts on agriculture and forestry. Highest priority is given to
improving the acquisition and availability of data sets on land cover
(vegetation type), human use and disturbance, soil parameters, topography
and climate.
The Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Project is a joint
Program Element of the IGBP and the IHDP. It was established recognizing
the fact that over the coming decades, the global effects of land use and
cover change may be as significant, or more so, than those associated with
potential climate change. Consequently this Core Project is aimed “to
improve understanding of the land use and land cover change dynamics and
their relationships with the global environmental change”. A study of landcover dynamics involves, amongst others, the regional assessment of landcover change as determined from direct observation (e.g., satellite imagery
and field studies) and models built from these observations.
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extremely promising avenue for both land surface climatology research, and
for improvements of operational weather prediction.
5.
RELATED PROJECTS
The role of IGBP-DIS (Data and Information System) is to assist, as
needed, IGBP Core Projects in the development of their individual data
system plans; to help provide an overall data system plan for IGBP; to carry
out activities leading directly to the generation of data sets; to ensure the
development of effective data management systems and act, where
appropriate, to ensure the meeting of the data and information needs of IGBP
through international and national organizations and agencies. Thus, it
addresses the more technical aspects of data, such as the provision of
efficient data exchange mechanisms, meta-data and catalogues; the very
large volumes and novel character of many new data sets expected to be
available from space platforms in the next decade, with distinctive problems
of information manipulation and extraction; and the need to ensure the
provision of long-term data sets to detect significant global changes in
environmentally important parameters.
The IGBP Core Project Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
(GCTE) requires many large-scale data sets to develop a global vegetation
model, and for other modeling activities related to finer scale ecological
changes and impacts on agriculture and forestry. Highest priority is given to
improving the acquisition and availability of data sets on land cover
(vegetation type), human use and disturbance, soil parameters, topography
and climate.
The Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Project is a joint
Program Element of the IGBP and the IHDP. It was established recognizing
the fact that over the coming decades, the global effects of land use and
cover change may be as significant, or more so, than those associated with
potential climate change. Consequently this Core Project is aimed “to
improve understanding of the land use and land cover change dynamics and
their relationships with the global environmental change”. A study of landcover dynamics involves, amongst others, the regional assessment of landcover change as determined from direct observation (e.g., satellite imagery
and field studies) and models built from these observations.