Map of vegetation types in the North of the Republic of Congo

Tropical moist forests are not the homogeneous green carpet often illustrated in maps or considered by global models. They harbour a complex mixture of forest types organised at different spatial scales. In this study we built a large-scale vegetation map of the North of Congo and assessed the environmental drivers of the main forest types, their forest structure, their floristic and functional compositions, and their faunistic composition. To build the map, we used Sentinel-2 satellite images and recent deep learning architectures. The dataset consist in a map of six vegetation types over 18 500 km² in the North of the Republic of Congo: dense forests, swamp forests, secondary forests, monodominant Gilbertiodendron forests, Marantaceae forests, open Marantaceae forests.

Date (Creation): 2024-09-24

Date (Publication): 2024-09-24

Citation identifier: Map of vegetation types in the North of the Republic of Congo

Code: 10.23708/59ed1234-bb7f-4914-be50-aadeadf67aa0

Credit: Agence Nationale de la Recherche: ANR-20-CE32-0010

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UMR AMAP - CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Univ.Montpellier - France	Picard, Juliette	juliette.picard@ird.fr	Author
UMR AMAP - CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Univ.Montpellier - France	Réjou-Méchain, Maxime		Author
UMR AMAP - CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Univ.Montpellier - France	Picard, Juliette	juliette.picard@ird.fr	Point of contact
UMR AMAP - CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Univ.Montpellier - France	Réjou-Méchain, Maxime	maxime.rejou@ird.fr	Point of contact

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Thématiques NumeriSud

Ecosystems and natural habitat

Keywords

Tropical forest
Map
Vegetation types
Central Africa

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 100 m

Language: English

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Environment
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Begin date: 2024-09-24

End date: 2024-09-24

Reference system identifier: WGS84 - EPSG:4326

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OGC:WMS	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geoserver/amap_ws/wms	VegTypesMap_NCongo_2024
FILE:RASTER	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geoserver/ows?service=WCS&version=2.0.1&request=GetCoverage&coverageId=VegTypesMap_NCongo_2024	Vegetation types in the North of the Congo - 2024.
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.419	Publication associée
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geonetwork/umr_amap/api/records/59ed1234-bb7f-4914-be50-aadeadf67aa0/attachments/Legend_of_vegetation_types.pdf	Legend_of_vegetation_types.pdf

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Date (Publication): 2024-09-26

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Metadata language: en

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Date stamp: 2024-09-26T14:34:51.348293Z

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Metadata standard version: 2010.04

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UMR AMAP - CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Univ.Montpellier - France	Picard, Juliette	juliette.picard@ird.fr	Author

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