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Title: Land Cover Areas (Digital Map Database of China)

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 1998
  • Coverage: 1980

Publishers

  • National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM)

Summary

This layer is a vector-based land cover display of 19 classes of geomorphic landforms, surface features and soil types. The layer describes land cover and landscape feature areas (sand, gravel, bog, beach, dune, marsh, snow field, salt pan, yardang, etc..) throughout China.

Subjects

  • China
  • People's Republic of China
  • geoscientificInformation
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Landforms
  • Landscape
  • Geomorphology
  • Soils
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (73.490494, 134.620941, 53.459393, 16.004612)
  • Geometry: BBOX (73.490494, 134.620941, 53.459393, 16.004612)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM), National Geomatics Centre of China, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Land Cover Areas (Digital Map Database of China). National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM). Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-archlanpy

Format

Shapefile