LITE Terrain Flags
These flag descriptions are taken from
Global Ecosystems Database Version 1.0 Documentation Manual (Disc A)
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- 0 : Water
- 6 TBE Temperate/tropical-montane Broadleaf Evergreen covers warm
temperate or montane broadleaf evergreen forest.
- 8 DMB Desert, Mostly Bare stone, clay or sand
- 22 SNB Snowy Non-Boreal conifer forest
- 23 CDF Conifer/Deciduous, snow persisting in winter
- 24 TBC Temperate Broadleaf/Conifer forest with deciduous and/or
evergreen hardwood trees
- 26 TBF Temperate Broadleaf Forest deciduous, semideciduous, and some
temperate-subtropical broadleaf evergreen types that are least active in winter
- 30 CFS Cool Farmland and Settlements, more or less snowy
- 31 MFS Mild/hot Farmland and Settlements
- 41 MGS Mild/warm/hot Grass/Shrub
- 43 SGW Savanna/Grass, seasonal Woods, trees or shrubs above grass
groundcover may be interspersed on many scales in savanna belts of varying
drought duration and high fire frequency
- 50 SDB Sand Desert, partly Blowing dunes
- 51 SDS SemiDesert/desert Scrub/succulent/sparse grass
- 53 TUN Tundra (polar,alpine)
- 56 FFR Forest/Field complex with Regrowth after disturbances, mixed with
crops and/or other non-wooded lands
- 58 FWG Field/Woods with Grass and/or cropland
- 59 STW Succulent and Thorn Woods or scrub is widespread
- 62 NMT Northern or Maritime Taiga typifies a wide latitude belt or a narrow altitude belt above denser forest or woodland
- 72 MSM Mangrove and non-saline Swamps and tidal Mudflats