Data · collection
Africa Outline, Integrated Terrain Units, Agric. Landuse, Soils, Vegetation
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
These datasets (Africa Outline, Agricultural Landuse, Africa Soils, Vegetation, Surface Hydrography, Hydrologic Basins, Desertification Hazard Model) are part of the UNEP/FAO/ESRI Database project that covers the entire world but focuses in this case on Africa.
Description
The maps were prepared by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), USA. Most data for the database were provided by the Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, Land and Water Development Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Italy.
The database was developed by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) as part of a project initiated by UNEP. The base maps used were the FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World (1977) in Miller Oblated Stereographic projection, FAO Maps and Statistical Data by Administrative Unit and the Rand-McNally New International Atlas (1982) to clarify unit boundaries. All sources were re-registered to the basemap by comparing known features on the basemap and the source maps.
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The digitizing was done with a spatial resolution of 0.002. The maps were then transformed from inch coordinates to latitude/longitude degrees. The transformation was done using an unpublished algorithm developed by the US Geological Survey and ESRI to create coverage's for one-degree graticules.
For details about each dataset, visit the individual entries.
Links
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232849282-CEOS_EXTRA.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2232849282-CEOS_EXTRA.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Boundaries · Ecological Dynamics · Environmental Impacts · Landscape · Land Use/Land Cover Classification · Not provided · Soils · Soils · Topography · Vegetation Species
Provenance · 1 source records, 16 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2232849282-CEOS_EXTRA | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/agriculture/soils | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-species | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/boundaries | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/environmental-impacts | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/landscape | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/land-use-land-cover/land-use-land-cover-classification | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/soils | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/topography | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |