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Land cover in Vietnam 2013

Land cover 2013 is the version 3 in the series of land cover analyse of GLCNMO (The Global Land Cover by National Mapping Organizations) products. The data covers whole globe. The whole data is divided into 4 tiles. The size of a tile is 90 degrees in latitude and 180 degrees in longitude, that is, 21,600 pixels by 43,200 pixels with 15 second resolution. The scope of Vietnam is the tile gm_lc_v3_1_2.zip. Land cover 2013 is a product of GLCNMO in raster format which classifies the status of land cover of the whole globe into 20 categories. Vietnam includes 18 categories. They include Broadleaf Evergreen Forest, Broadleaf Deciduous Forest, Needleleaf Evergreen Forest, Needleleaf Deciduous Forest, Mixed Forest, Tree Open, Shrub, Herbaceous, Sparse vegetation, Cropland, Paddy Field, Cropland / Other Vegetation Mosaic, Mangrove, Wetland, Bare area consolidated (gravel, rock), Bare area unconsolidated (sand), Urban, Water bodies.The data is established in the WGS 84 coordinate system with degree unit and based on MODIS data 2013 (Terra & Aqua).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Agriculture
  • Forest classifications
  • Forest cover
Language
  • English
  • Vietnamese
Use limitations Acknowledgement of written sources is necessary. Please show a text, "Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Chiba University and collaborating organizations", on your products.
GeoNames
  • Viet Nam
West bounding coordinates 99.4083333333336
East bounding coordinates 120.070833333334
South bounding coordinates 4.9041666666666
North bounding coordinates 24.7458333333333
Spatial Resolution 15
Spatial Reference System WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Positional Accuracy the tile gm_lc_v3_1_2.zip
Process Step Search, download and visualize
Lineage https://github.com/globalmaps/gm_lc_v3
Responsible party Chiba University and Collaborating Organizations
Limitations on public access No limitations on access
Format version Data in zipped GeoTiff format
License Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Copyright To be determined
Version 3
Keywords landcover,2013,thực phủ
Date uploaded March 12, 2020, 15:38 (UTC)
Date modified August 31, 2020, 14:31 (UTC)