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Global Land Cover Datasets

Reading the Data

Except for the Country Codes dataset, the land cover characteristics datasets all use the same format in how they store their information. Once you have opened one of them, the following snippet of FORTRAN code demonstrates how the data within may be read:


      CHARACTER*80 INFO1, INFO2, INFO3
      INTEGER   IARRAY(360,180)
C
      READ(10,910) INFO1
      READ(10,910) INFO2
      READ(10,910) INFO3
      READ(10,920) IARRAY
C
  910 FORMAT (A80)
  920 FORMAT (10I8)
C
      STOP
      END

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