Global Forest Resources Assessment

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
GIScCE, South Dakota State University

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Location


48° N; 79° W
Americas; Canada (Quebec)
Elevation of the tile center point: 305 m
Water consist 0.7% of block area



Biome/ecoregion


Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests biome
Eastern forest-boreal transition 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


Continental, humid, warm summer


Temperature/Precipitation


Max temperature of warmest month (C°)

23

Min temperature of coldest month (C°)

-23

Annual precipitation (mm)

902


Phenology data

(MODIS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)


Maximum annual NDVI: 0.84

           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

56.1%

median

54%

maximum

76%



Bare ground percent within the tile: 0.0%





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


 


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