Land cover of Jordan
The Jordanian land cover database and atlas were developed under the Regional Food Security Analysis Network (RFSAN) project. The Land Cover Atlas of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan provides information on the land cover distribution by subnational administrative boundaries (governorates and districts) shared by the Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre (RJGC).
The main data source includes multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery at 10 m of spatial resolution acquired from April to November 2016 and ancillary georeferenced data (land cover and land use map, vegetation cover, soil map) obtained from different institutions.
The Land cover database attributes contain the following fields:
-Area (sqm)
-ID
-LCCSCode
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2021-01
- Edition
- First
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- The main objective of the project is to increase and improve provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner as well as to increase the understanding of the bio-physical conditions of land in Jordan.
- Status
- Completed
- Keywords
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- landcover
- environment
- natural resources
- agriculture
- forest
- rangeland
- Jordan
- land cover
- Tag_GISLAB
- Tag_landcover
- HiH_GIS_LAB
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Environment
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- Supplemental Information
- The final database comprises 1 million polygons classified according to the LCCS Legend distinguished into 34 classes (23 aggregated classes
- Reference system identifier
- Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984
- Distribution format
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TIFF
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TIFF
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- OnLine resource
- Jordan_LC ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Data quality info
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 6dfcc76d-e0aa-439e-a10d-6366be3f23bc XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2023-02-09T13:08:22
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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Spatial extent
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