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Title: Tanzania Landcover

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: April 04, 2002
  • Coverage: 2002

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

Tanzania 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. 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

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

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (29.372057, 40.448742, -1.002642, -11.758909)
  • Geometry: BBOX (29.372057, 40.448742, -1.002642, -11.758909)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Di Gregorio, Antonio, Tanzania. Idara ya Upimaji na Ramani., Mollel, Lazarus L. Tanzania Landcover. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-tz-lndcov-ge

Format

Shapefile