FAO Map Catalog
Spatially aggregated landcover for Himalaya Region
This dataset is a spatially reaggregated version of the original full resolution multipurpose database which has been produced from visual interpretation of digitally enhanced LANDSAT ETM (years 2000 and 2006), LANDSAT TM (1990) and MSS (1970).
The classes represented in the map are a generalization of the original 35 land cover classes for the Himalaya Region.
The mapping area is the Hindu Kush - Karakorum - Himalaya mountain chain, which is about 1,500,000 km2. Portions of the following 5 countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China and Myanmar, and the full Nepal and Bhutan, have been mapped.
Source: FAO-GLCN Regional Harmonization Programme.
The interpretation of the satellite imagery has been performed by the GLCN land cover team with the support of the country expercts of Afghanistan, Buthan, Cina, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and ICIMOD.
The land cover classes have been developed using the FAO/UNEP international standard LCCS classification system. This database can be analyzed in the GLCN software Advanced Database Gateway (ADG), which provides a user-friendly interface and advanced functionalities to breakdown the LCCS classes in their classifiers for further aggregations and analysis.
The data set is intended for free public access.
The shape main attributes correspond to the following fields:
-ID
-AREA
-PERIMETER
-HECTARES
-USERLABEL
-LCCCODE (unique LCCS code)
-CODE1
-CODE2
-CODE3
-LCCPERC
-LC
You can download a zip archive containing:
(.shp)
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2009-12-11T00:00:00
- Edition
- First
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- The purpose of this initiative is to provide essential basic information on natural resource assessment and management, environmental modelling, and decision-making and policy formulation for a sustainable land management.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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- landcover
- environment
- natural resources
- agriculture
- forest
- rangeland
- management
- AFRICOVER
- land cover
- Tag_GISLAB
- Tag_landcover
- Keywords ( Place )
-
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Other constraints
- The data remains full property of the owners. It can be accessed, reproduced and distributed given that the owner information is explicitly acknowledged and displayed in the copyright information (I.E. Produced by FAO - Africover). The Authors do not assume any responsibilities for improper use of the data.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 350000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Supplemental Information
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Within the Regional HArmonization Programme (RHAP) of GLCN, the land cover mapping of the Himalaya region was carried out.
The initiative was conducted in collaboration between GLCN staff and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Reference system identifier
- 32635- WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_35N (Transverse Mercator)
- Units of distribution
- ESRI Shapefile
- Protocol
- WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
- Protocol
- OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
- Description
- Spatially aggregated landcover for Himalaya Region
- OnLine resource
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Spatially aggregated landcover for Himalaya Region
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Spatially aggregated landcover for Himalaya Region
- OnLine resource
- https://data.apps.fao.org/map/catalog/srv/eng/resources.get?id=38192&fname=&access=private ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Description
- Please refer to chapter 6 ('Thematic information and its accuracy') of the 'Technical Insight' document, available under the Distribution Info section.
- Statement
- The original land cover was interpreted from LANDSAT ETM (years 2000 and 2006), LANDSAT TM (1990) and MSS (1970), verified by field work, digitised, checked for topological and attribute errors and mosaiced. The reaggregation has been performed by eliminating polygons below a certain area threshold. This threshold corresponds to approx. a 30 % reduction in the polygon count. The dataset was re-aggregated based on area threshold values. For more information on the area thresholds used to spatially aggregate the land cover database and the polygon count before and after the aggregation, please see the 'spatial-agg-parameters' document included in the Archive.zip.
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- a4a35d3c-f11f-45de-a576-0164dc781ab1 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-04-22T00:47:26
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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