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National databases for 9 UN-REDD pilot countries
Land cover is extremely important for natural resource assessment and
management, environmental modelling and decision-making.
Given that the Globcover is
currently the most recent (2005) and detailed (300 m) global archive on
land cover, FAO-NRCE has promoted the re-processing of this database
at national extent for 9 countries as part of the activities of United Nations
Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(UN-REDD).
These 9 countries were selected by UN-REDD for the phase 1 of the programme:
- Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia
- Asia & Pacific: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Viet Nam
- Latin America & Caribbean: Bolivia (figure above), Panama, Paraguay
The resulted data sets are vector based (.shp), coded using LCCS classes,
and topologically corrected to be used in the GLCN's Advanced
Database Gateway (ADG) software. ADG provides a user-friendly interface and advanced
functionalities to analyse LCCS-based land cover data sets by breaking down
classes in their classifiers for further aggregations and analysis.
Each data set is accessible through the FAO's geo-spatial data and metadata archive, Geonetwork.
To retrieve each single metadata record (which provides more details on the data and
the database itself), click on the links below.
You may filter all 9 Globcover-derived records using the following link:
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