Gambia Land Use Land Cover 2013

Description

This dataset is the third (circa 2013) in a series of three 1-kilometer land use land cover (LULC) time-periods datasets (1975, 2000, and 2013) aids in monitoring change in West Africa’s land resources. To monitor and map these changes, a 26 general LULC class system was used. The classification system that was developed was primarily inspired by the “Yangambi Classification” (Trochain, 1957). This fairly broad class system for LULC was used because the classes can be readily identified on Landsat satellite imagery. A visual photo-interpretation approach was used to identify and map the LULC classes represented on Landsat images. The Rapid Land Cover Mapper (RLCM) was used to facilitate the photo-interpretation using Esri’s ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap software. Citation: Trochain, J.-L., 1957, Accord interafricain sur la définition des types de végétation de l’Afrique tropicale: Institut d’études centrafricaines.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F73N21JF
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5edff0ae82ce7e579c708945.xml

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  • cenozoic
  • land-use
  • landuse
  • usgs-5edff0ae82ce7e579c708945
  • biota
  • land-use-classes
  • holocene
  • landcover
  • land-cover
  • phanerozoic

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