WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forest of Guinea-Bissau (Classification of Forest Types)

New-ID: NBI66 This data set presents a classification of African closed moist tropical forest for Guinea-Bissau. The WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database documentation File: GUIVEG.E00 Code: 127001-001 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: 0 = 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 Source : several national maps Publication Date : February 1992 Projection : Mercator, specified where different Related Datasets : White"'"s vegetation map Keywords : WCMC, Forests. The legend in almost all coverages is under ITEM VEGN 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 - The Forest classification as explained above VEGETATION = Gives the legend name corresponding to the VEGN item (not all coverages have this)