South African National Landcover 2020

Raster-based land-cover dataset representing the full South African landscape for the full year 2020. Derived from 20 m Sentinel 2 imagery acquired between 01 January 2020 and 31 December 2020. Land-cover information classes based on new Gazetted land-cover standards and legend content used in 2013/14 national land-cover data. All land-cover and land-use classes generated using automated modelling procedures for full operational repeatability and change detection. The land-cover was produced with CALC (Computer Automated Land-Cover) system by DEFF.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Feature metadata record on SAEOSS landing page? true
DOI
Metadata Standard
Metadata record responsible party
Individual name
Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Position name
Directorate: Environmental Spatial Information
Role
originator
Electronic mail address
Website URL
https://www.dffe.gov.za/egis
Metadata record responsible party contact info
Phone
Facsimile
Metadata record responsible party contact address
delivery Point
Environment House, Steve Biko Street, 473 Arcadia
City
Pretoria
Administrative area
Gauteng
Postal Code
0083
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 Land-cover dataset for 2020 generated in-house by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) with the Computer Automated Land Cover system (CALC), based on full year 2020 coverage of 20 m Sentinel 2 imagery. All original imagery sourced and automatically processed on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. The land-cover classification consists of 73 classes at 20 m resolution and the product was exported as a Geographic Lat/Lon in a GeoTIFF format.
Metadata record point of contact
Individual contact name
Dr Zakariyyaa Oumar
Role / Position of the contact individual
Chief GIS Professional
Organisation role
point of contact
Electronic mail address
zoumar@environment.gov.za
Metadata record point of contact additional info
Contact point phone
+2712 399 9293
Contact point facsimile
Metadata record online information
URL
Name
Application profile
Description
Distribution format
Metadata record distribution format name
geo.TIFF
Metadata record distribution format version
1.0.4
Spatial parameters
Spatial resolution equivalent scale
1:60000
Spatial representation type
Vector (vector data is used to represent geographic data)
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:4326
Additional information about Reference Systems (temporal, vertical) Temporal Extent: 1 January { 31 December 2020.
Reference date
Reference date 1
Reference datetime
2020-01-01T00:00
Reference date type
Creation
Metadata stamp date 2021-03-14T00:00
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