Digital grid data of Land use of Myanmar. This dataset is created using Satellite image of Myanmar.

Digital dataset of Land cover of Afghanistan. This dataset is acquired from International Geosphere & Biosphere (IGBP), USGS and has 1KM spatial resolution.

Digital dataset of Land use of Lamjung district, Nepal. This dataset is created using Land use map published by Land Resource Mapping Project (LRMP), Department of Survey, Nepal 1986.

Digital data of Land use of RDT Centre of Bhutan. This dataset is prepared by ICIMOD based on ground survey 2008.

Digital data of Land use of Nepal. This dataset is created using Land use Maps of 50000 scale published by Land Resource Mapping Project (LRMP), Dept. of Survey Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984.

Digital dataset of Land use of Dhading district, Nepal. This dataset is created using 1:50,000 scale Land use map of Land published by Land Resource Mapping Project (LRMP), Dept. of Survey, Nepal 1984.

Digital data of Land use of Kayar Khola Watershed, Chitwan, Nepal. This dataset is created using Topographic sheet data at scale of 25,000/50,000, of 1995 acquired from National Geographic Information Infrastructure Project (NGIIP), Dept. of Survey, Kathmandu, Nepal and verified during 2010 field survey. The data was prepared for the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Pilot Project. This is a joint project of ICIMOD with Asian Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bio-resources (ANSAB) and Federation of Community for Forest Users of Nepal (FECOFUN) funded by NORAD.

Land cover and its change analysis across the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is realized as an urgent need to support diverse issues of environmental conservation. This study presents the first and most complete national land cover database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2000 and replicable methodology. The study estimated that 41.64% of Nepal is covered by forests and 27.77% by agriculture. Physiographic regions wise forest fragmentation analysis revealed specific conservation requirements for productive hill and mid mountain regions. Comparative analysis with Landsat TM based global land cover product showed difference of the order of 30-60% among different land cover classes stressing the need for significant improvements for national level adoption. The online web based land cover validation tool is developed for continual improvement of land cover product. The potential use of the data set for national and regional level sustainable land use planning strategies and meeting several global commitments also highlighted.

Digital dataset of Land cover of 1992 of Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. This dataset is created using Landsat TM satellite image of 1992, September 22.

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.