Land Cover of Lesotho (2014)
The Lesotho Land Cover Database (LCDB) and ATLAS have been prepared in the framework of the FAO Emergency Program (OSRO/LES/401/EC): “Building Lesotho resilience through the upscale of Climate Smart Agriculture and functional DRR Land Resources Information”.
The national Land Cover Legend was prepared using the FAO (ISO standard) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS): a FAO’s comprehensive, standardized “a priori” classification system, designed to meet specific user
requirements and created for mapping exercises, independent of the scale or means used to map.
The shape file's attributes contain the following fields:
-ID
-Area (km2)
-LCS3Code (unique LCCS code)
You can download a zip archive containing:
-the shape file (.shp)
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2021-01-11
- Edition
- 1
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- landcover
- natural resources
- environment
- agriculture
- land managment
- forest
- HiH_GIS_LAB
- Lesotho
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Lesotho
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Environment
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
(
1.0
)
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ESRI Shapefile
(
1.0
)
- OnLine resource
- Lesotho_LC ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Data quality info
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- c04cb8f9-aace-4abe-aa07-79e39312fbb2 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2022-11-08T08:36:19
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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