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LADA Land Use Classes

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Citation (What is it about and who created it or owns it)
Title LADA Land Use Classes
Publication Date2009
PublisherDepartment of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF)
Creator (Author/ Responsible Party) Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) , Affiliation: National Office, Private Bag x250, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Contributor HostingInstitution : South African Environmental Observation Network , Affiliation: SAEON - National Office, PO Box 2600, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Permanent Identifier 10.15493/DEA.CARBON.10000017 (DOI)
Online Resources
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Information LADA Land Use Classes
Usage, Restrictions, Caveat
Licencing and Usage Rights Composite or Custom License ( http://noframe.data.dirisa.org/platform/policy-and-licenses/composite-license-carbon-atlas )
Methodology
In the context of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project, the land use system approach for land degradation assessment has as guiding principle that land use is the major driving force of land degradation. Mapping of land use systems has therefore becomes a major activity within the LADA project at global and national level where land use units are considered the basic units in which land degradation and land improvements are mapped. The following spatial layers were found to be reliable enough and at an acceptable level of detail to be used in the production of the LUS map for South Africa: • National Land Cover 2000 (NLC Consortium); • Protected Areas in South Africa 2001 (Biodiversity GIS, South African Biodiversity Institute- SANBI); • VEGMAP 2006 (Mucina & Rutherford, SANBI); • Local Municipalities 2005 (Demarcation Board of South Africa). The LADA Land Use Map for South Africa has 18 land use/cover classes as a result of combining the 4 spatial layers discussed above. In combination with administrative boundaries a total number of 2447 unique combinations (which were equal to the number of LADA-WOCAT Mapping Questionnaires (QM) to be completed) were derived by integrating the Local Municipality (LM) boundaries with the Land Use Systems data.
Data Dictionary/ Schema
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Coverage (Main Dimensions of the Data)
Start Date2008
End Date2011
Date ( Accepted )
Date ( Issued )
Subjects LADA
Subjects South Africa
Subjects Land degradation
Subjects Land Use
Subjects National level
Metadata Elements
Metadata Standarddatacite
Repository SA Carbon Sinks Atlas
Technical Data Set Parameters
Languageeng
Data Representationon
Spatial Coverage
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