Global Forest Resources Assessment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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e151s06

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Location


6° S; 151° E
Oceania; Papua New Guinea (East New Britain)
Elevation of the tile center point: 1 m
Water consist 30.8% of block area



Biome/ecoregion


Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests biome
New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests ecoregion



External information resources


The Degree Confluence Project information



Tile outlines


 Tile outline 10x10km and 20x20km [KMZ]
 Tile outline 10x10km [SHP]
 Tile outline 20x20km [SHP]


Climate and Phenology


Köppen Climate Classification System


Moist Tropical, humid


Temperature/Precipitation


Max temperature of warmest month (C°)

30

Min temperature of coldest month (C°)

20

Annual precipitation (mm)

5064


Phenology data

(MODIS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)


Maximum annual NDVI: 0.80

           Monthly NDVI (percent of maximum annual NDVI)

Land Cover Data


MODIS Tree canopy cover



                  Tree canopy cover

         0%

100%


      Tree canopy cover within the tile

mean

30.4%

median

20%

maximum

79%



Bare ground percent within the tile: 0.1%





 Download MODIS-derived tree canopy cover
    and SRTM water mask [GeoTIF]


 


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