Africa Revised FNOC Percent Water Cover

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Africa Revised FNOC Percent Water Cover Dataset Documentation

File: AFWATER.IMG Code: 100082-005

Raster Member
The IMG file is in IDRISI format

The percent water cover dataset is part of the revised FNOC
elevation, terrain and surface characteritics. It formed part of the
NOAA project that was developed by the World Data Center-A (WDC-A) for
Solid Earth Geophysics, operated by the U.S. National Geophysical Data
Center (NGDC). The dataset is part of the World Data Bank II provided
on a diskette called The Global Change Data Base. The Data Bank II is
part of larger project called Global Ecosystems Database Project. This
is a cooperation between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), NGDC and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA). The National Center for Geographic Information and
Analyses (NCGIA) in Santa Barbara, California joined the project to
assist with training and evaluation. A scale was chosen that
corresponds closely with the resolution of global AVHRR coverage was
chosen to provide compatibility with other scales. All data are
provided in geographic (longitude/latitude) projection. The dataset is
accompanied by an ASCII documentation file which contains information
necessary for use of the dataset in a GIS or other software. Contact :
NGDC, 325 Broadway E/GC, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA The AFWATER file
shows the revised FNOC percent water cover for Africa.

Reference:

Cuming, Michael J. and Barbara A. Hwakins. TERDAT: The FNOC
System for Terrain Data Extraction and Processing
(1981). Techn. Report MII Project M-254 (2nd Ed.) Prepared for Fleet
Numerical Oceanography Center (Monterey, CA). Published by
Meteorology International Incorporated. Source map : Digitized from
available maps and reprocessed: US Defense
Operational Navigation Charts (ONC), scale 1:1000000; some World
Aeronautical Charts and charts from Jet Navigation.
Publication Date : 1985
Projection : Lon/lat
Type : Raster
Format : IDRISI