Date (Publication)

2009-05-07T11:57:00

Edition

First

Presentation form

Digital map

Purpose

Land cover is extremely important for natural resource assessment and management, environmental modeling and decision-making. Given that the Globcover is currently the most recent (2005) and resoluted (300 m) global dataset on land cover, the Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) programme has promoted the processing of this database to make it complaints with the GLCN standards and usable through its tools set for land cover based analysis and modelling.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
FAO-UN	John Latham	John.Latham@fao.org	Point of contact

Keywords

• landcover

• GLOBCOVER

• natural resources

• environment

• forest

• agriculture

• land management

• UN-REDD

• land cover

Place

• Bolivia

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment
• Boundaries

Begin date

2005-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2005-12-31T15:00:00

Supplemental Information

This land cover product is a vector version (ESRI shape) of the Globcover archive that was published in 2008 as result of an initiative launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Globcover is currently the most recent (2005) and resoluted (300 m) datasets on land cover globally. Given the need of this valuable information for environmental studies, natural resources management and policy formulation, through activities of the Global Land Cover Network (GLCN) programme, the Globcover has been reprocessed to generate databases at national extent that can be analyzed through the Advanced Database Gateway software (ADG) by GLCN. ADG is a cross-cutting interrogation software that allows the easy and fast recombination of land cover polygons according to the individual end-user requirements. Aggregated land cover classes can be generated not only by name, but also using the set of existing classifiers. ADG uses land cover data with a Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) legend.

The ADG software is available for download on the GLCN web site at http://www.glcn.org/sof_7_en.jsp

Reference system identifier

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	http://geo.gob.bo/geonetwork/srv/es/resources.get?id=911&fname=bol_gc_adg.zip&access=private	bol_gc_adg.zip
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMGSY2IU7E_index_0.html
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	http://www.glcn.org/index_en.jsp

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

This land cover database is provided as ESRI shape file (vector format) and derives from reprocessing the raster based global archive, Globcover. Globcover database has undergone the following process: a) vectoralization at the national extent using ESRI ArcGis (arcinfo) 9.3; b) topological reconstruction (custom AML scripts launched inside ArcGis-arcinfo 9.3); c) simplification of areas according to a minimum mapping unit of 0.1 skim (10 ha) (custom AML scripts launched inside ArcGis-arcinfo 9.3); application of the FAO/UNEP Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) legend (24 classes globally); final processing to assure full compatibility with the GLCN software Advanced Database Gateway (ADG).

Metadata

File identifier

e3cd1134-b99f-4436-aa59-c540d7237bcf XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Date stamp

2012-07-18T11:52:46

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
FAO-UN	Antonio Martucci	Antonio.Martucci@fao.org	Point of contact