073f1390-3b0e-4320-8446-8466ad118c59 eng FRTC info@frtc.gov.np 2026-01-23T14:58:25 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 WGS 1984 Land cover of Nepal 2021-02-10 2024-12-20 FRTC 977-1-5320482 Nepal info@frtc.gov.np Mr. Kabir Uddin ICIMOD GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist 977-1-5275222 kabir.uddin@icimod.org FRTC. (2022). Land cover of Nepal [Data set]. FRTC. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1972729 The annual land cover data of Nepal (2000-2022) have been created through the National Land Cover Monitoring System (NLCMS) for Nepal. The system uses freely available remote-sensing data (Landsat) and a cloud-based machine learning architecture in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform to generate land cover maps on an annual basis using a harmonized and consistent classification system. The NLCMS is developed by the Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC), Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal with support from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) through SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH), a joint initiative in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Collaborators include SERVIR–Mekong at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), SilvaCarbon, Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) group at the University of Maryland, and the US Forest Service. The annual land cover data of Nepal for 2000-2019 was first published in 2022 while the data for 2020-2022 was released in 2024. The annual land cover data of Nepal (2000–2022) developed using a harmonized and consistent classification system will support assessment and monitoring of land cover change in the country and will serve as key dataset in various thematic applications. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/api/records/073f1390-3b0e-4320-8446-8466ad118c59/attachments/Nepal_landcover22.jpg Land cover Land use GIS spatial data Landsat GEE Google Earth Engine Earth Observation NLCMS Nepal FRTC ICIMOD SERVIR-HKH Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) 30 eng geoscientificInformation 80.03 88.169 26.344 30.417 2000-01-01 2022-01-01 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org