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Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF)⚓︎

Table Summary⚓︎

VCF is used for measuring global forest cover change and is a key parameter for a variety of environmental and climate-related applications.

File Metadata⚓︎

Table Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
SHRID vcf_shrid.dta shrid2, year

Variable Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
vcf_min Minimum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 11,921,540
vcf_max Maximum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 11,921,540
⭐ vcf_mean Mean percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 11,921,540
vcf_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 11,923,460
year Year 0% 11,923,460

Table Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
Subdistrict vcf_pc11subdist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, pc11_subdistrict_id, year

Variable Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
vcf_min Minimum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 119,380
vcf_max Maximum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 119,380
⭐ vcf_mean Mean percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 119,380
vcf_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 119,380
year Year 0% 119,380

Table Information (District)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
District vcf_pc11dist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, year

Variable Information (District)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
vcf_min Minimum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 12,800
vcf_max Maximum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 12,800
⭐ vcf_mean Mean percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 12,800
vcf_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 12,800
year Year 0% 12,800

Table Information (AC07)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2007 Assembly Constituency vcf_con07.dta ac07_id, year

Variable Information (AC07)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
vcf_min Minimum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 81,540
vcf_max Maximum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 81,540
⭐ vcf_mean Mean percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 81,540
vcf_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 81,600
year Year 0% 81,600

Table Information (AC08)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2008 Assembly Constituency vcf_con08.dta ac08_id, year

Variable Information (AC08)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
vcf_min Minimum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 82,360
vcf_max Maximum percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 82,360
⭐ vcf_mean Mean percentage tree cover detected in polygon 0% 82,360
vcf_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 82,360
year Year 0% 82,360

Note

  • Missing %: Proportion of observations with missing data
  • Zero %: Proportion of observations with zero values
  • Canary variable: The ⭐ indicates the canary variable for imputation, see this link for more details about the imputation algorithm.

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