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Land cover of Nepal 2000

Updated Date: 9/8/2020 1:55:23 PM

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.

Land cover of Nepal 2000
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Purpose Development of baseline information for environmental management.
Descriptive Keyword Land cover, Land use, servircat, icimod-servir (theme) Nepal (place)
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Language eng
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Date 2020-09-08T13:55:23
Standard Name North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
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Name Mr. Sameer Bajracharya Email Sameer.Bajracharya@icimod.org
Organization Name ICIMOD Voice
Position name Research Associate GIS Address
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Title Land cover of Nepal 2000
Date 2014-10-31
Date Type publication
Abstract 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.
Purpose Development of baseline information for environmental management.
Status completed
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Topic Category geoscientificInformation
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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
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Use Limitation Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2014). Land cover of Nepal 2000 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.19590
Use Limitation The SERVIR Project, NASA, USAID and ICIMOD make no express or implied warranty of this data as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Neither the US Government nor its contractors shall be liable for special, consequential or incidental damages attributed to this data.
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Code WGS 1984
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Hierarchy level dataset
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Email metadata@icimod.org Organization Name ICIMOD
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