Land cover of Nepal 1990

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.

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Date ( Publication )
2014-10-31
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Kabir Uddin ( GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Other citation details
ICIMOD. (2014). Land cover of Nepal 1990 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.20828
Purpose
Development of baseline information for environmental management.
Credit
This dataset has been developed by SERVIR Himalaya. SERVIR is a joint USAID-NASA project. For more information on SERVIR, visit http://www.servirglobal.net.
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Land cover
  • Land use
  • servircat
  • icimod-servir
Keywords ( Place )
  • Nepal

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Distance
30  m
Metadata language
eng
Character set
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD -
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File identifier
1cd1a2b5-c192-4733-ab01-4b348bebe671 XML
Metadata language
eng
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Date stamp
2026-01-28T12:02:53
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD, SERVIR Himalaya - Mr. Sameer Bajracharya ( Research Associate GIS )
 
 

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Land cover Land use icimod-servir servircat

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