10.15493/DEA.CARBON.10000054
Mark Thompson
South African Land Cover 1990 Class D Natural Vegetation Resampled to a 1km Grid
Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries
2019
on
land cover
natural vegetation
CarbonSinksAtlasV3
Graham von Maltitz
Marc Pienaar
Claire Davis-Reddy
1990-01-01/1990-01-01
en-US
389d3641fad030dc647924c76927733c
http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
The 1990 South African National land cover dataset produced by (© GEOTERRAIMAGE - 2014) as a commercial data product was generated from digital, multi-seasonal Landsat 4/5 multispectral imagery, acquired between April 1989 and October 1993. In excess of 600 Landsat images were used to generate the land cover information, based on an average of 8 different seasonal image acquisition dates, within each of the 76 x image frames required to cover South Africa. The land cover dataset, which covers the whole of South Africa, is presented in a map-corrected, raster format, based on 30x30m cells equivalent to the image resolution of the source Landsat 4/5 multi-spectral imagery. The dataset contains 72 x land cover / use information classes, covering a wide range of natural and man-made landscape characteristics. The original land cover dataset was processed in UTM (north) / WGS84 map projection format based on the Landsat 4/5 standard map projection format as provided by the USGS. Class 5–9 of the 1990 South African National land cover dataset was clustered to derive South African land cover 1990 Class D Natural Vegetation for the current product and resampled to a 1000 x 1000m grid resolution Albers Equal Area map projection +proj=aea +lat_1=-22 +lat_2=-38 +lat_0=-30 +lon_0=25 +x_0=1400000 +y_0=1300000 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
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