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South African Land Cover 1990 Class J Subsistence Agriculture Resampled to a 1km Grid

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Citation (What is it about and who created it or owns it)
Title South African Land Cover 1990 Class J Subsistence Agriculture Resampled to a 1km Grid
Publication Date2019
PublisherDepartment of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries
Creator (Author/ Responsible Party) Mark Thompson , Affiliation: GeoTerra Image (GTI) Pty Ltd, PO Box 295, Persequor Park, 0020, Pretoria, South Africa
Contributor ProjectLeader : Graham von Maltitz , Affiliation: CSIR, PO Box 395, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Contributor ProjectMember : Marc Pienaar , Affiliation: SAEON, PO Box 2600, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa, Email: marc@saeon.ac.za
Contributor ContactPerson : Claire Davis-Reddy , Affiliation: SAEON, PO Box 2600, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa, Email: claire@saeon.ac.za
Permanent Identifier 10.15493/DEA.CARBON.10000060 (DOI)
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Usage, Restrictions, Caveat
Licencing and Usage Rights Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 )
Methodology
The 1990 South African National land cover dataset produced by (© GEOTERRAIMAGE - 2014) as a commercial data product was generated from digital, multi-seasonal Landsat 4/5 multispectral imagery, acquired between April 1989 and October 1993. In excess of 600 Landsat images were used to generate the land cover information, based on an average of 8 different seasonal image acquisition dates, within each of the 76 x image frames required to cover South Africa. The land cover dataset, which covers the whole of South Africa, is presented in a map-corrected, raster format, based on 30x30m cells equivalent to the image resolution of the source Landsat 4/5 multi-spectral imagery. The dataset contains 72 x land cover / use information classes, covering a wide range of natural and man-made landscape characteristics. The original land cover dataset was processed in UTM (north) / WGS84 map projection format based on the Landsat 4/5 standard map projection format as provided by the USGS. Class 23–25 of the 1990 South African National land cover dataset was clustered to derive South African land cover 1990 Class J Subsistence Agriculture for the current product and resampled to a 1000 x 1000m grid resolution Albers Equal Area map projection +proj=aea +lat_1=-22 +lat_2=-38 +lat_0=-30 +lon_0=25 +x_0=1400000 +y_0=1300000 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
Data Dictionary/ Schema
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Coverage (Main Dimensions of the Data)
Start Date1990
End Date1990
Date ( Accepted )
Date ( Issued )
Subjects land cover
Subjects subsistence agriculture
Subjects CarbonSinksAtlasV3
Metadata Elements
Metadata Standarddatacite
Repository SA Carbon Sinks Atlas
Technical Data Set Parameters
Languageeng
Data Representationon
Spatial Coverage
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