Bush Encroachment and Land Cover Change

The dataset shows landcover change between 1990 (lcov_1990) and 2013 (lcov_2013). Attribute information includes ; pagenumber, mapcode12 (vegetation type), dn_new (aboveground carbon values-DMt/ha), lcov_1990, lcov_2013, parent1990 (general landcover name), parent2013, old_new (landcover change), parent_old_new (landcover change by name), dn_ave_1990 (average for each landcover in 1990), dn_ave_2013, dn_ave_change (average carbon change between 1990 and 2013); and boolean information for the following: bush encroachment, grass encroachment, perturbation, degradation, restoration, habitat loss. Landcover data entries were obtained from Landsat satellite images used to generate landcover information into 72 landcover types; vegetation type is collected by SANBI; Aboveground woody biomass (carbon values) collected from high resolution data in the Savannah (CSIR- DMt/ha at 100m resolution) or from lower resolution data for the rest of the country (1km).

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DOI 10.15493/BEA.DATA.10000099
Metadata Standard
Metadata standard name
SANS 1878-1:2011
Metadata standard version
1.1
Metadata record responsible party
Individual name
South African Environmental Observation Network
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Organisation
Role
resource provider
Electronic mail address
Website URL
catalogue.saeon.ac.za
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delivery Point
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Topic category and SAEOSS theme
Topic Category
Imagery, Basemaps, Earth Cover
Metadata and Metadata record language and character set
Dataset language
English
Dataset character set
UTF-8
Metadata language
English
Metadata character set
UTF-8
Lineage statement Landcover data entries were obtained from Landsat satellite images used to generate landcover information into 72 landcover types; vegetation type is collected by SANBI; Aboveground woody biomass (carbon values) collected from high resolution data in the Savannah (CSIR- DMt/ha at 100m resolution) or from lower resolution data for the rest of the country (1km).
Metadata record point of contact
Individual contact name
Data Curation
Role / Position of the contact individual
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point of contact
Electronic mail address
curation@saeon.nrf.ac.za
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Metadata record online information
URL
https://catalogue.saeon.ac.za/records/10.15493/BEA.DATA.10000099
Name
Bush Encroachment and Land Cover Change
Application profile
Description
Distribution format
Metadata record distribution format name
Electronic metadata record
Metadata record distribution format version
1.1
Spatial parameters
Spatial resolution equivalent scale
N/A
Spatial representation type
Vector (vector data is used to represent geographic data)
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG: 4326
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Reference date
Reference date 1
Reference datetime
2018-01-01T00:00
Reference date type
Publication
Metadata stamp date 2023-06-23T00:00
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