Land cover (Sindh Province, Pakistan - 10m)

Land cover data provides comprehensive description of biotic and abiotic resources of a province and includes numerous categories of cultivated land, natural vegetation and non-vegetative areas and built-up areas. It mainly covers the topographic features of a province. The current data shows all the land cover classes in the province Sindh of Pakistan as derived by FAO Geospatial Team NSL and FAO GIS team Pakistan using AI, GIS and RS methods.

Data publication: 2023-06-21

Supplemental Information:

No data value: -128

Unit: class

Contact points:

Metadata Contact: Mehwish Ali

Resource Contact: FAO-NSL Geospatial Unit

Data lineage:

Class - Caption

1. Built-up (BUP)

2. Roads (ROA)

3. Tree Orchards (ORC)

4. Herbaceous crops irrigated (HCI)

5. Herbaceous crops rainfed (HCR)

6. Herbaceous crops in floodplain (HCF)

7. Herbaceous natural vegetation (HER)

8. Shrubs sparse natural vegetation (SOP)

9. Shrubs dense natural vegetation (SCL)

10. Shrubs in temporary wet soil (SWE)

11. Trees sparse natural vegetation (TOP)

12. Tree forest plantations (TFP)

13. Trees dense natural vegetation (TCL)

14. Sand dunes (SDU)

15. Bare soil (BSO)

16. Bare soil in temporary wet (BTW)

17. Water bodies (WBO)

18. Wetlands (WET)

19. Snow (SNW)

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