At the watershed level, land cover data was prepared using object image classification technique. GeoEye-1 images captured 2nd November, 2009 was used.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | Land cover data of 2009 provide statistically changes of forest and other land cover in Kayerkhola, Chitwan District, Nepal. Forest cover data also used for the quantification of number of sample plots for the estimation of forest biomass and carbon stocks. |
| Descriptive Keyword | Basal Area(BA), REDD+, Forest, Land cover, servircat, icimod-servir, geo-biodiversity (theme) Nepal, Chitwan (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2025-07-17T11:53:06 |
| Standard Name | North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 |
| Contact | |||
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| Name | Mr. Hammad Gilani | metadata@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD, SERVIR Himalaya | Voice | |
| Position name | Associate Remote Sensing Specialist | Address | |
| Role | author | ||
| Identification Info | |
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| Title | Land cover data of 2009 for Kayerkhola watershed, Chitwan District, Nepal |
| Date | 2015-09-22 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | At the watershed level, land cover data was prepared using object image classification technique. GeoEye-1 images captured 2nd November, 2009 was used. |
| Purpose | Land cover data of 2009 provide statistically changes of forest and other land cover in Kayerkhola, Chitwan District, Nepal. Forest cover data also used for the quantification of number of sample plots for the estimation of forest biomass and carbon stocks. |
| Status | completed |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Topic Category | geoscientificInformation |
| Spatial Representation Type | grid |
| Equivalent Scale | 5000 |
| Cited Responsible Parties | |||
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| Name | Mr. Hammad Gilani | metadata@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | Associate Remote Sensing Specialist | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author | ||
| Geographic Extent | |||
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| Geographic Extent East | 84.6939 | Geographic Extent West | 84.5565 |
| Geographic Extent North | 27.7756 | Geographic Extent South | 27.6702 |
| Resource Maintenance Information | |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | asNeeded |
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| Legal Constraints | |
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| Use Limitation | Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2015). Land cover data of 2009 for Kayerkhola watershed, Chitwan District, Nepal [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.23290 |
| 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. |
| Use Limitation | Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use. |
| Use Limitation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Access Constraints | license |
| Use Constraints | license |
| Reference System Information | |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | dataset |
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| metadata@icimod.org | Organization Name | ICIMOD | |
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| Address | Role | distributor | |
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| Online Resource | REDD Information System |