FSP: Other natural areas (Hantam Municipality) 2009

This dataset represents all natural areas that have not been recognized as Critical Biodiversity Areas (aquatic and terrestrial), Ecological Support Areas (critical and other) or National Protected Areas but are also not considered to be irreversibly transformed (No Natural Remaining Areas). It can include natural, near natural or degraded lands. Below are the stages followed to come up with this dataset: • Merge the CBA, CESA, OESA and National Protected Areas • Do a vector to raster conversion on the merged file - setting the spatial resolution to 10 m • Reclass the landcover summary map by combining the natural, near natural and degraded into one class and masking out the production and transformed landcover classes. • Define the projection for the datasets • Resample/ Layerstack the two datasets • Using the Map Algebra/ Map Calculator subtract the merged file from the reclassed landcover summary • Reclass the Resultant Image (Other Natural Areas)