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Title: Egypt Multipurpose Landcover Database

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: April 04, 2002
  • Coverage: 2002

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

Egypt landcover from The Multipurpose Africover Database for the Environmental Resources produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Scale of the dataset: 1:200,000 (1:100,000 Nile Delta). The land cover has been produced from visual interpretation of digitally enhanced LANDSAT TM images (Bands 4,3,2) acquired mainly in the year 1997. The land cover classes have been developed using the FAO/UNEP international standard LCCS classification system.

Subjects

  • Egypt
  • Land use
  • Vegetation mapping
  • Earth Surface
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (24.698437, 36.898693, 31.667225, 21.964945)
  • Geometry: BBOX (24.698437, 36.898693, 31.667225, 21.964945)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Di Gregorio, Antonio, Egypt. Ministry of Agriculture. Soil and Water Research Institute, El Mowelhi, Nabil. Egypt Multipurpose Landcover Database. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-eg-lndcov

Format

Shapefile