a2aa0488-b200-483f-8d4a-147f843cfa87 eng Mr. Kabir Uddin ICIMOD GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist kabir.uddin@icimod.org 2026-02-04T09:10:36 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 WGS 1984 / UTM Zone 42N Land cover of Afghanistan 2021-07-10 ICIMOD. (2022). Land cover of Afghanistan [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973187 The annual land cover data of Afghanistan (2000-2018) have been created through the National Land Cover Monitoring System (NLCMS) for Afghanistan. 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 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) together with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) and National Statistic and Information Authority (NSIA). The NLCMS system is customized from the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System (RLCMS) which is a collaborative effort between SERVIR-HKH at ICIMOD and SERVIR-Mekong at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), with co-development partners - the United States Forest Services (USFS), SilvaCarbon, and Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) group at the University of Maryland. The annual land cover data of Afghanistan (2000–2018) 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/a2aa0488-b200-483f-8d4a-147f843cfa87/attachments/af_landcover.jpg Land cover Land use GIS spatial data Landsat GEE Google Earth Engine Earth Observation SERVIR-HKH ICIMOD Afghanistan Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) 50000 eng geoscientificInformation 60.5042 74.9157 29.4061 38.472 2000-01-01 2018-12-31 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org