Title: Rwanda Thematic Grassland Aggregation Landcover
- 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 15, 2002
- Coverage: 2002
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
Rwanda thematic grassland 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: 1:100,000. This dataset is a reaggregated version of the original national Africover landcover multipurpose database. It contains all natural vegetation with a herbaceous component. 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
- Rwanda
- Land use
- Vegetation mapping
- Grasslands
- Earth Surface
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (28.98251, 30.989523, -0.963372, -2.916435)
- Geometry: BBOX (28.98251, 30.989523, -0.963372, -2.916435)
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 Thematic Grassland Aggregation Landcover. Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-africover-rw-grass-agg
Format
Shapefile