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Title: Vegetation Features - Points (Digital Map Database of China)

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 1998
  • Coverage: 1980

Publishers

  • National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM)

Summary

This coverage contains vegetation features throughout China, represented by points. Vegetation polygons less than 1.5 square millimeters on the source map are represented as points. These features include mangrove forests, economically exploited forests (bamboo, coffee, etc.), shrub and grassland areas. Not all vegetation types found in China are represented in this coverage.

Subjects

  • Environment
  • Land Cover
  • China
  • People's Republic of China
  • biota
  • Vegetation
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (77.298248, 133.048965, 50.990059, 20.082094)
  • Geometry: BBOX (77.298248, 133.048965, 50.990059, 20.082094)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM), National Geomatics Centre of China, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Vegetation Features - Points (Digital Map Database of China). National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (NBSM). Point data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-archvegpt

Format

Shapefile