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Appendix 1: Look-up table for establishing correspondences between three existing reference data sets and the FAO FRA2000 global land cover map legend

FAO

IGBP

China CAS

U.S. MRLC

Closed forest
  1. Evergreen needleleaf forest5
  2. Evergreen broadleaf forest
  3. Deciduous needleleaf forest
  4. Deciduous broadleaf forest
  5. Mixed forest

1. Forest (natural or man-made)

41. Deciduous forest

42. Evergreen forest

43. Mixed forest

91. Woody wetlands

Open or fragmented forest

8. Woody savanna6

3. Open forest or woodland

  

Other wooded land
  • Closed shrubland
    		•

    2. Shrub

    4. Other wooded land

    51. Shrubland

    Other land cover
  • Open shrubland
    1. Savanna
    2. Grassland
    3. Wetland
    4. Cropland
    5. Urban
    6. Cropland / natural vegetation mosaic
    7. Barren
    8. Permanent ice and snow.

    Classes 5-30 (barren, urban and rural settlements, agriculture, grassland classes)

    12. Perennial ice/snow

    21. Low intensity residential

    22. High intensity residential

    23. Commercial/industrial/ transportation

    31. Bare rock/sand/clay

    32. Quarries/strip mine/ gravel pits

    33. Transitional

    61. Orchard/vineyard/other

    71. Grassland/herbaceous

    81. Pasture/hay

    82. Row crops

    83. Small grains

    84. Fallow

    85. Urban/recreational grass

    92. Emergent herbaceous wetlands

     

    5All five IGBP forest classes are defined as having a canopy cover greater than 60% (see Belward, 1996).

    6Forest canopy cover for this class is between 30-60%.

     

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