SANBI Metadata
National Land Cover 2009 (Mosaic Land Cover)
Land Cover and Land Use changes often indicate major impacts on biodiversity
especially if those changes show the loss of natural habitat due to urban sprawl,
cultivation, etc. Spatial LC/LU patterns often form a reference for applications
ranging from monitoring, planning, biodiversity, climate change, etc. Different
projects and application have referenced NLC 1994 & NLC 2000, but these products
are rather being outdated since they do not reflect the true reflection of the current
landscape. Due to rather outdated information on land cover, there is high demand
for improved land covert data sets on a national scale.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2008
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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landcover
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- Place
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South Africa
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
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Data is coming from different sources (for more information check the supporting
report)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2016-01-01
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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A list of services published are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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BGIS Map Services
- OnLine resource
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A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL.
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
)
BGIS Spatial Datasets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Origin of the data:
This product is coming from different data sources, it range from fine scale municipal land cover data, provincial land cover, ARC cultivation filed boundaries and ESKOM Spot 5 building count.
Accuracy:
The accuracy of the product was not tested since there was no reference data to be used or ground control points but ARC cultivation and ESKOM data were having an accuracy of ± 90% accuracy. Since these two data sources were given priority over other data sources, we assume that the final product will have more or less similar accuracy.
Data Confidence
This is not the new version of land cover map but this should be used as good indicator of land use changes over 10 years in South Africa. This product shows major land use in South Africa by using the best available data.
Currency:
None
Conditions of Purchase:
None
This product should not be used as a new version of land cover but rather be used as an indicator of major land use changes in the country. It have seven classes which represents major land uses, and this is not on the finer details as the previous land cover products
- File identifier
- 5b42dcac-f5d8-4f7d-8f73-c533f7c501de XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2018-10-01T16:12:36
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
Overviews
Spatial extent
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