Eastern Asia vs Iceland: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS over time
- Eastern Asia
- Iceland
How they compare
Eastern Asia currently reports 6,360 1000 ha against 1,132 1000 ha in Iceland, a difference of 5,228 1000 ha.
That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 5.6 times Iceland's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Eastern Asia has been ahead every year.
Eastern Asia ranks 5th and Iceland ranks 8th of 24 groups.
Eastern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls, Eastern Asia or Iceland?
- Eastern Asia, at 6,360 1000 ha against 1,132 1000 ha in Iceland as of 2019.
- What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls between Eastern Asia and Iceland?
- 5,228 1000 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and Iceland?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do Eastern Asia and Iceland rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Eastern Asia ranks 5th and Iceland ranks 8th of 24 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.