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Appendix 1. LAND USE AND LAND COVER 
MAPS USED FOR GROUND TRUTH 
COLLECTION 
1. Land Cover Map of West Asia (using AVHRR data 
from April, 1992 to March, 1993) 
produced by Hussein Harahsheh and Ryutaro Tateishi 
using 1-km AVHRR NDVI dataset, 1997 
2. Land Use Association in Bangladesh 
produced by the Resource Planning Unit, Agriculture and 
Rural Development Department, World Bank, Washington 
D.C., 1979. 
Scale : 1: 500,000 
3. Land Use Map of Tibet Area, China 
produced by Land Cover Management Department of 
Tibet. 
Scale: 1:2,000,000 
4. Vegetation Map in LiaoNing Province, China 
produced by LiaoNing University in July, 1984 
Scale: 1:500,00 
5. Forest Distribution Map of Heirongjiang Province, 
China 
Scale : 1: 2,000,000 
6. Forest Distribution Map of Liaoning province, China 
Scale: 1:1,800,000 
7. Forest Distribution Map of Niemonggu Area, China 
Scale : 1:4,000,000