Review of Available Products of Leaf Area Index and Their Suitability over the Formerly Soviet Central Asia

Table 1

The total number of pixels within each land-cover type, its area and percentage in Central Asia based on the 2001 MODIS land cover map (source: Propastin et al. [17]).

Land cover type	Number of pixels	Area in mill·km^2	Percentage, %
Cropland	9008	0.609	10,92%
Irrigated cropland	4163	0.266	4,79
Cropland mosaic	18535	1.186	21,67
Grassland	26951	1.725	31,32
Shrubland	13186	0.844	15,2
Savanna	2077	0.133	2,3
Wetland	3135	0.201	3,61
Forest	6616	0.423	7,59
Tundra	332	0.021	0,38
BSV*	2771	0.177	3,13
Total	86774	5.578	100

BSV*: barren or sparsely vegetated.