Derived by CGIAR from the USGS Earth Resources Observation System (EROS) Data Centre (EDC) 1998, 1 km resolution, global land cover characteristics database, version 1.2 which is based on monthly NDVI data from April 1992 to March 1993. Agricultural land includes irrigated and rainfed cropland, managed pastures, orchards vineyards and plantations. Sparsely vegetated includes desert, semi-desert and tundra. Raster data-set has been exported as ASCII raster file type.