Each land cover has a different effect on carbon and climate cycles.
There are 17 different land cover types shown in the image, including 11 natural vegetation types such as deciduous and evergreen forests, savannas, and wetlands.
At the meeting, member countries will also for the first time be required to submit data on poverty and land cover in areas impacted by desertification.
This second mission is supposed to loft the Proba-V satellite to collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every couple of days.
"This product will have a major impact on our carbon budget work, " says Professor Steve Running of the University of Montana, who uses the land cover maps in conjunction with other weekly observations from Modis.
The satellite will have a number of viewing modes that will enable it to perform a wide range of roles, from flood monitoring and land cover classification to disaster mapping and maritime enforcement - notably ship tracking and oil spill detection.
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The ETS was originally set up in 2005 to cover factories and other land-based emitters of CO2, but was extended to cover aircraft at the start of the year.
As the Hamptons cover a large land area, it is best to have a car if you plan on travelling between several sites, although town centres are accessible from their respective Long Island Railroad stations and taxis are widely available.
In some particularly noisy areas, reckons Luc Goubert, who is co-ordinating the PERS project at the Belgian Road Research Centre in Brussels, the resulting boost to property values and, therefore, land taxes could help cover the cost.
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The mountains cover 75% of land in the country -- despite the fact land is very expensive, we have been offered a huge amount of land to build cricket grounds, in the north, the east and the west.
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Compare that to railroads, which got a lot of land gifts a century ago but now cover all the costs to maintain their rights of way.
Compare that with railroads, which got a lot of land gifts a century ago but now cover all the costs of maintaining their rights of way.
Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.
Most of the dead men came from Uttar Pradesh and were killed by cunningly placed land mines after they rushed to take cover from the Maoists' opening attack.
"The evidence will show blatant conflicts of interest, " Dopp said, referring to the alleged practice of compensating analysts for flattering the companies they cover in a bid to land investment banking deals.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, publicly raised the possibility of altering the 1967 borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state, which he said must cover the same amount of land the Palestinian territories had before the war of 1967.
The danger for the Palestinians is that the Gaza pull-out and the vague talk of a land swap turn out to be a cover for Mr Sharon to concentrate on what they suspect is his longer-term strategy: to use the barrier wall to incorporate big chunks of the West Bank into a Greater Israel.
Now, those temperatures cover about 10% of the land area, the study said.
If plans go through for the Russian Navy to station its forces at the Syrian port of Tartus, the Russians are scheduled to secure that port with advanced land to air PMU-2 ballistic missiles that will cover most of Syrian airspace.
Extreme droughts currently cover about 2% of the world's land area, and that is going to spread to about 10% by 2050.
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Sustaining existing forest cover, planting new trees and better management of land use is also suggested as a means to slow global warming.
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The lakes cover 59, 000 hectares of rock and desert land.
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The new building, described by the council as being of a modern design with "a succession of cube-like shapes superimposed on each other", would cover a wider area - including some Metropolitan Open Land.
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As the Obama administration apparently sees it, a Hamas-Fatah government will provide cover for stepped up pressure on Israel to surrender land to the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, because Israel will no longer be able to claim that it has no Palestinian partner.
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Kakadu is just one, albeit one of the biggest, of Australia's 516 national parks and 2, 700 designated conservation areas that together cover about 7.5% of the continent's land surface.
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