RDC UCL Forest Classification

Based on: A. Verhegghen, P. Defourny, "A new 300 m vegetation map for Central Africa based on multi-sensor times series", Third Recent Advance in Quantitative Remote Sensing, J.A. Sobrino (Ed.), Publicaciones de la Universitat de Valencia,Valencia, Spain, 2010.608

Vegetation types of 8 countries in Central Africa have been mapped thanks to a semi-automatic processing method based on temporal and spectral information from 19 months of ENVISAT MERIS FRS observation and 8 years of SPOT VEGETATION time series. The approach is based on a previous 1-km mapping effort for the Democratic Republic of Congo and on the lessons learnt from the ESA-GlobCover project. A land cover map with 20 vegetation classes was produced in five major steps: data compositing, seasonal stratification of the study zone, unsupervised classifications, automatic labelling and manual editing. The floristic composition and physiognomy of each vegetation type are described using the Land Cover Classification System developed by the FAO. This mapping exercise will be a reference document to deliver area estimates of the different forest types in a consistent way for DRCongo, Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

For the display of the NFMS portal, the original data has been reprojected to "latlong" projection, cropped, and masked for the area of the DRC.

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Identification info 

 
Date (Creation)
2010

Identifier 

 
Status
Completed  

  Originator

Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) 
 

  Point of contact

FAO-UN FOA - Inge Jonckheere 
Spatial representation type
Grid  

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Spatial resolution 

 
Spatial resolution
300  
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Environment
  • Biota
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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
Keywords (Theme)
  • forestry
  • FOA_SLMS
  • Tag_forestry
  • Tag_UNREDD
  • Tag_UNREDD
  • nfm_drc
Keywords (Theme)
  • HiH_Forestry
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Use constraints
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Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  

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OnLine resource
 

Resource lineage 

 
Hierarchy level
Dataset  

Reference System Information 

 
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984

mdb:MD_Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 6893a6c8-4dae-4296-bb13-8a9f8a57c779

Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  
Language
French  

  Point of contact

FAO-UN FOA - Stefano Giaccio () 
Metadata linkage
 

Date info (Creation)
2020-03-17T08:56:42
Date info (Revision)
2020-11-10T17:04:20

Metadata standard 

 
Title
ISO 19115-3 

Citation proposal


. RDC UCL Forest Classification.
https://nfm.review.fao.org:/nfm/catalog/srv/api/records/6893a6c8-4dae-4296-bb13-8a9f8a57c779

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Keywords

FOA_SLMS HiH_Forestry Tag_UNREDD Tag_UNREDD Tag_forestry forestry nfm_drc

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