Title: Rwanda Spatially Aggregated Multipurpose Landcover Database
- Polygon data
- 2002
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Di Gregorio, Antonio
- Rwanda. Ministere des terres, de la reinstallation et de la protection de l'environnement
- Burabyo, Eugene Rurangwa
Dates
- Issued: November 12, 2002
- Coverage: 2002
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
Rwanda spatially aggregated multipurpose landcover database 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: 1:100,000. This dataset is a spatially reaggregated version of the original national Africover landcover multipurpose database. The land cover has been produced from visual interpretation of digitally enhanced LANDSAT TM images (Bands 4,3,2) acquired mainly in the year 1999. The land cover classes have been developed using the FAO/UNEP international standard LCCS classification system.
Subjects
- Agriculture
- Rwanda
- Land use
- Vegetation mapping
- Earth Surface
- Grasslands
- Forests and forestry
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (28.771509, 30.989523, -0.963372, -2.93011)
- Geometry: BBOX (28.771509, 30.989523, -0.963372, -2.93011)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Di Gregorio, Antonio, Rwanda. Ministere des terres, de la reinstallation et de la protection de l'environnement, Burabyo, Eugene Rurangwa. Rwanda Spatially Aggregated Multipurpose Landcover Database. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-rw-spat-agg
Format
Shapefile