Schema	iso19139
Purpose	Development of baseline information for environmental management.
Descriptive Keyword	Land cover, Land use, servircat, icimod-servir (theme) Nepal (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2026-01-28T12:02:53
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Sameer Bajracharya	Email	Sameer.Bajracharya@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD, SERVIR Himalaya	Voice
Position name	Research Associate GIS	Address
Role	author

Identification Info
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
Name	Mr. Kabir Uddin	Email	Kabir.Uddin@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	88.19456	Geographic Extent West	80.0522
Geographic Extent North	30.42472	Geographic Extent South	26.36836

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Access Constraints	license
Use Constraints	license

Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice		Position name
Address		Role	distributor

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