WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forest, Kenya (Classification of Forest Types)

New-ID: NBI68

This data set presents a classification of African closed moist
tropical forest for Kenya.

The WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database documentation

File: KENYVEG.E00 code: 128001-001

Vector Member
The file is in Arc/Info Export format and should be imported with
the Arc/Info command Import cover In-Filename Out-Filename. NOTE: Due
to an Arc/Info bug, annotation that was included in the export files
(E00) was deleted so that the files could be imported.

The WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database is a
compilation of national maps into comparable units by the World
Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) of Great-Britain. National
maps were used and legend units were grouped into 13 classes,
describing forest types:

10 = Water bodies 130 = Degraded Rain Forest
111 = Mangroves 500 = Dry Forest
112 = Degraded Mangroves 510 = Pine Forest
113 = Inland Swamp Forest
114 = Degraded inland Swamp Forest 900 = Non Forest
121 = Montane Rain Forest 999 = no data
122 = Lowland Rain Forest
123 = Sun Montane Rain Forest

Contact : UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P O Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya

References:

WCMC Biodiversity Map Library. Closed Moist Tropical Forests and
Managed Areas Data, Feb. 1992. Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring
Unit (KREMU). Land Use Map of Kenya (1983), scale 1:1m. Bartholomey &
Son. Topographical map "Kenya" (nd), scale 1:1 250 000

Source : Land Use Map of Kenya
Publication Date : February 1992
Projection : unknown
Related Datasets : White"'"s vegetation map
Keywords : WCMC, Forests.

NOTE: CORRECT label errors:
52 unlabelled polygons
6 dangling node associated with silither polys

AREA = gives the rea of the polygon in the map units
PERIMETER = gives the perimeter of the polygon in map units
xxxVEG# and xxxVEG-ID = internal Arc/Info number
VEGN (missing) - The Forest classification as explained above
No item VEGN, but it seems User_ID serves as vegetation code.