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Title: South Africa Landcover, 2002

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2002

Publishers

  • Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping

Summary

South Africa Landcover is a raster theme representing land cover classifications throughout South Africa 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 organisations worldwide.

Subjects

  • South Africa
  • ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (15.0, 35.0, -20.0, -35.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (15.0, 35.0, -20.0, -35.0)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM). South Africa Landcover, 2002. Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping. Raster data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-iscgm_southafrica_2002_landcover_rast

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

  • English