The land cover data for the years 1990 have been derived from Landsat TM 30m images using object based image analysis. The study estimated that 45.15% of Nepal is covered by forests and 25.41% by agriculture.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | Development of baseline information for environmental management. |
| Descriptive Keyword | Land cover, Land use, servircat, icimod-servir (theme) Nepal (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2020-09-08T14:42:11 |
| Standard Name | North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 |
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| Name | Mr. Sameer Bajracharya | Sameer.Bajracharya@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD, SERVIR Himalaya | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Associate GIS | Address | |
| Role | author | ||
| Identification Info | |
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| Title | Land cover of Nepal 1990 |
| Date | 2014-10-31 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | The land cover data for the years 1990 have been derived from Landsat TM 30m images using object based image analysis. The study estimated that 45.15% of Nepal is covered by forests and 25.41% by agriculture. |
| Purpose | Development of baseline information for environmental management. |
| Status | completed |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Topic Category | geoscientificInformation |
| Spatial Representation Type | |
| Spatial Resolution | 30 |
| Cited Responsible Parties | |||
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| Name | Mr. Kabir Uddin | Kabir.Uddin@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author | ||
| Geographic Extent | |||
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| Geographic Extent East | 88.19456 | Geographic Extent West | 80.0522 |
| Geographic Extent North | 30.42472 | Geographic Extent South | 26.36836 |
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| Use Limitation | Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2014). Land cover of Nepal 1990 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.20828 |
| Use Limitation | Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use. |
| Access Constraints | copyright |
| Use Constraints | copyright |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | dataset |
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| metadata@icimod.org | Organization Name | ICIMOD | |
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