Title: Democratic Republic of the Congo Landcover
- Polygon data
- 2003
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Di Gregorio, Antonio
- Congo (Democratic Republic). Ministere de l'environnement. Service Permanent d'Inventaire et d'Amenagement Forestier
- Yobwa, Joseph Ipalaka
Dates
- Issued: October 01, 2003
- Coverage: 2003
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
The Democratic Republic of the Congo 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 2000-2001. The land cover classes have been developed using the FAO/UNEP international standard LCCS classification system.
Subjects
- Congo
- Land use
- Vegetation mapping
- Earth Surface
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (12.20663, 31.30591, 5.386098, -13.45568)
- Geometry: BBOX (12.20663, 31.30591, 5.386098, -13.45568)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Di Gregorio, Antonio, Congo (Democratic Republic). Ministere de l'environnement. Service Permanent d'Inventaire et d'Amenagement Forestier, Yobwa, Joseph Ipalaka. Democratic Republic of the Congo Landcover. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-drc-landcover-ge
Format
Shapefile