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 KP of Pakistan as derived by FAO Geospatial Team NSL and FAO GIS team Pakistan using AI, GIS and RS methods
Supplemental Information:
No data value: -128
Unit : class
Scale Factor : 1.0
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: Mehwish Ali
Resource Contact: FAO-NSL Geospatial Unit
Data lineage:
Class - Caption
1 - Built-up
3 - Tree orchards
4 - Herbaceous crops irrigated
5 - Herbaceous crops rainfed
6 - Herbaceous crops in flood plain
7 - Herbaceous natural vegetation;
8 - Shrubs sparse natural vegetation
9 - Shrubs dense natural vegetation
10 - Shrubs in temporary wet soil
11 - Trees sparse natural vegetation
13 - Trees dense natural vegetation
15 - Bare soil
16 - Bare soil in temporary wet
17 - Water bodies
18 - Wetlands
19 - Snow
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO
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