Reference Land Cover in Great Limpopo 2015-2018 (vector) - version 1, April 2019

This metadata refers to the Land Cover vector data generated over Limpopo (Africa) for 2015 in the framework of the Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Mapping (C-GL-HSM) contract under the coordination of JRC.
This area of interest is either mapped with the generic 8 classes dichotomus legend (SAF_02_lc_a) or the detailed modular legend (SAF_02_lc_b).

The mapped area of interest (AOI) represents a Key Landscape for Conservation area (KLC). The Great Limpopo trans frontier park involves three different parks: Kruger National Park (South Africa), Limpopo National Park (Mozambique) and Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe). The memorandum of understanding for the creation of conservation area was signed on November 2000.
The floodplains of the Limpopo River are fertile and heavily populated. The southern hemisphere sees its rainy season, where precipitation exceeds 60 mm, roughly from October to March, and its dry one from around April to September. The area around the park is dense of villages and the agriculture is the primary activity.

Reference time: 2015 - 2018