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Journal of Geographic Information System, 2011, 3, 160-165 doi:10.4236/jgis.2011.32013 Published Online April 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jgis) Creation of New Global Land Cover Map with Map Integration Koki Iwao , Kenlo Nishida Nasahara , Tsuguki Kinoshita , Yoshiki Yamagata , Dave Patton , 1 2 3 4 4 1 Satoshi Tsuchida GEO Grid Research Group, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan Institute of Agricultural and Forest Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukub, Japan School of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan Degree Confluence Project, Victoria, Canada E-mail: iwao.koki@aist.go.jp 1 2 3 4 5 Received January 12, 2011; revised February 4, 2011; accepted February 9, 2011 Abstract We present here a new approach to the development of a global land cover map. We combined three existing global land cover maps (MOD12, GLC2000, and UMD) based on the principle that the majority view pre- vails and validated the resulting map by using information collected as part of the Degree Confluence Project (DCP). We used field survey information gathered by DCP volunteers from 4211 worldwide locations to validate the new land cover map, as well as the three existing land cover maps that were combined to create it. Agreement between the DCP-derived information and the land cover maps was 61.3% for our new land cover map, 60.3% for MOD12, 58.9% for GLC2000, and 55.2% for UMD. Although some of the improve- ments we achieved were not statistically significant, this project has shown that an improved land cover map can be developed and well-validated globally using ou