Title: Egypt Thematic Cultivation Aggregation Landcover
- Polygon data
- 2003
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Di Gregorio, Antonio
- Egypt. Ministry of Agriculture. Soil and Water Research Institute
- El Mowelhi, Nabil
Dates
- Issued: March 20, 2003
- Coverage: 2003
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
Egypt thematic cultivation aggregation 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 (1:100,000 Nile Delta). This dataset is a reaggregated version of the original national Africover landcover multipurpose database. It contains all cultivated areas. 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
- Agriculture
- Egypt
- Land use
- Vegetation mapping
- Earth Surface
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (25.130129, 34.46933, 31.627922, 22.752874)
- Geometry: BBOX (25.130129, 34.46933, 31.627922, 22.752874)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Di Gregorio, Antonio, Egypt. Ministry of Agriculture. Soil and Water Research Institute, El Mowelhi, Nabil. Egypt Thematic Cultivation Aggregation Landcover. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-eg-cult-agg
Format
Shapefile