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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:29:53 -0500
From: Charles Hickman <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: re: land use/land cover maps of South Pacific countries

Jane,

Your patron may wish to check the Global Land Cover Characterization Project at

    http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/programs/lccp/globallandcover.html

        HTH,
        Charley

> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:18:33 -0700
> From: "Jane Ely (S&T Onsite)" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: land use/land cover maps of South Pacific countries
>
> A patron is looking for land use/land cover maps of different
> countries in a wide area of the South Pacific, including Hawaii,
> the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
>
> If you are aware of an atlas that covers these countries, or
> individual country atlases that would include this type of map,
> please let me know.  Internet sites or flat maps would be fine
> also.
>
> She would like mapped information on classes such as: urban,
> grassland, forest, shrubs, desert, crops, rainforest, dunes,
> glacier, wetland, water.  (She's using the Olsen Classification,
> which has 94 variations of these classes.)
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Jane Ely
> Geographic Reference and Map Librarian
> Micsoroft Corp.
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