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Land cover (Lesotho - 2021 - 10m) - EOSTAT

This raster dataset provides information on land cover in Lesotho. The map has been generated with the FAO methodology developed in Lesotho for the production of standardized annual land cover maps (L. De Simone et al, 2022) using Digital Earth Africa, after migrating the GEE scripts and adapting some parts of the workflow. Documentation is available at: https://github.com/frontiersi/land_cover_mapping_DEAfrica. 15 classes are considered.

Data publication: 2021-11-12

Supplemental Information:

Units: Land Cover Class

Legend

0: No data

1: Urban

2: Cropland

3: Degraded Cropland,

4: Forest Needleleaf

5: Forest Broadleaf

6: Water body

7: Wetland, River Bank

8: Shrubland

9: Grassland

10: Degraded Grassland

11: Bare surfaces

12: Mines

13: Irrigated Cropland

14: Gullies

Contact points:

Resource Contact: Lorenzo De Simone

Metadata Contact: Gianfausto Bottini

Resource constraints:

Online resources:

Download: Land Cover 2021 (Lesotho - 10m) (TIF)

Documentation on GitHub

Data and Resources

Graphic overview

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This raster dataset provides information on land cover in Lesotho. The map has been generated with the FAO methodology developed in Lesotho for the production of standardized annual land cover maps (L. De Simone et al, 2022) using Digital Earth Africa, after migrating the GEE scripts and adapting some parts of the workflow. Documentation is available at: https://github.com/frontiersi/land_cover_mapping_DEAfrica. 15 classes are considered.
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Units: Land Cover Class Legend 0: No data 1: Urban 2: Cropland 3: Degraded Cropland, 4: Forest Needleleaf 5: Forest Broadleaf 6: Water body 7: Wetland, River Bank 8: Shrubland 9: Grassland 10: Degraded Grassland 11: Bare surfaces 12: Mines 13: Irrigated Cropland 14: Gullies
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Last Updated July 12, 2023, 17:35 (UTC)
Created February 18, 2022, 17:34 (UTC)