A dataset of land use and land cover in the Aral Sea Basin (2000-2020)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

(1) Data content: the data set includes the land use of the Aral Sea basin from 2000 to 2020; (2) Data source and processing method: the data set is from the land cover map of the European Space Agency's climate change initiative（ http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI ）On this basis, the boundary data of the Aral Sea basin are masked to extract the land use of the Aral Sea basin. At the same time, the original secondary data are combined into primary data including 7 land use types according to certain rules. The coordinate system is wgs-1984; (3) Data quality description: according to the existing research, the overall accuracy of the data set reaches 80%; (4) The data set can provide basic data support for ecological protection and environmental assessment, and can also be used as the original data of land use simulation.

File naming and required software

File naming: the land use data is stored in grid format. The name of the file is "yyyy. TIF", where yyyy represents the year, such as 2019 TIF represents this grid data, which describes the land use of the Aral Sea Basin in 2019.
Data reading method: all TIF data in the dataset can be directly opened with mainstream GIS software such as ArcGIS or envi, and the displayed TIF file is the graphical representation of the file.

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Liu, T. (2021). A dataset of land use and land cover in the Aral Sea Basin (2000-2020). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Support Program

Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road-A CAS Strategic Priority A Program (No:XDA20000000)

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