Melanesia vs South America: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Melanesia
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 87,294 1000 ha against 6.39 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 87,288 1000 ha.
Across all 24 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 10th and South America ranks 10th of 20 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 16.18 1000 ha | 90,258 1000 ha | 90,241 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 11.22 1000 ha | 88,681 1000 ha | 88,669 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 7.83 1000 ha | 86,964 1000 ha | 86,956 1000 ha | South America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Melanesia or South America?
- South America, at 87,294 1000 ha against 6.39 1000 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Melanesia and South America?
- 87,288 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and South America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and South America rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Melanesia ranks 10th and South America ranks 10th of 20 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS. 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.