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Title: Japan Landcover, 2006

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2006

Summary

Japan Landcover is a raster theme representing land cover classifications throughout Japan at a resolution of 30 arc seconds. This layer is a component of the Global Map a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

Subjects

  • Japan
  • ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (120.004165, 155.004166, 49.995835, 19.995833)
  • Geometry: BBOX (120.004165, 155.004166, 49.995835, 19.995833)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM), Geographical Survey Institute. Japan Landcover, 2006. Raster data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-iscgm_japan_2006_landcover_rast

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

  • English