Africa Land Cover

<div><span style='font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>This map features Africa Land Cover at 30m resolution from MDAUS BaseVue 2013, referencing the </span><a href='/home/item.html?id=1770449f11df418db482a14df4ac26eb' target='_blank'>World Land Cover 30m BaseVue 2013 layer</a><span style='font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>.</span><span style='font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br /></span></div><span style='font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><div><span style='font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br /></span></div>Land cover data represent a descriptive thematic surface for characteristics of the land's surface such as densities or types of developed areas, agricultural lands, and natural vegetation regimes. Land cover data are the result of a model, so a good way to think of the values in each cell are as the predominating value rather than the only characteristic in that cell.</span><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'>Land use and land cover data are critical and fundamental for environmental monitoring, planning, and assessment.<br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><font size='4'>Dataset Summary</font></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>BaseVue 2013 is a commercial global, land use / land cover (LULC) product developed by </span><a href='http://www.mdaus.com/' style='color: rgb(0, 121, 193); text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 1.38462;' target='_blank'>MDA</a><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>. BaseVue covers the Earth’s entire land area, excluding Antarctica. BaseVue is independently derived from roughly 9,200 Landsat 8 images and is the highest spatial resolution (30m), most current LULC product available. The capture dates for the Landsat 8 imagery range from April 11, 2013 to June 29, 2014. The following 16 classes of land use / land cover are listed by their cell value in this layer: </span><br /><ol><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Deciduous Forest:  Trees &gt; 3 meters in height, canopy closure &gt;35% (&lt;25% inter-mixture with evergreen species) that seasonally lose their leaves, except Larch.</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Evergreen Forest:  Trees &gt;3 meters in height, canopy closure &gt;35% (&lt;25% inter-mixture with deciduous species), of species that do not lose leaves. (will include coniferous Larch regardless of deciduous nature).</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Shrub/Scrub:  Woody vegetation &lt;3 meters in height, &gt; 10% ground cover. Only collect &gt;30% ground cover.</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Grassland:  Herbaceous grasses, &gt; 10% cover, including pasture lands. Only collect &gt;30% cover.</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Barren or Minimal Vegetation:  Land with minimal vegetation (&lt;10%) including rock, sand, clay, beaches, quarries, strip mines, and gravel pits. Salt flats, playas, and non-tidal mud flats are also included when not inundated with water.</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font color='#808080'>Not Used (in other MDA products 6 represents urban areas or built up areas, which have been split here in into values 20 and 21).</font></span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Agriculture, General:  Cultivated crop lands</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Agriculture, Paddy:  Crop lands characterized by inundation for a substantial portion of the growing season</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Wetland:  Areas where the water table is at or near the surface for a substantial portion of the growing season, including herbaceous and woody species (except mangrove species)</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Mangrove:  Coastal (tropical wetlands) dominated by Mangrove species</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Water:  All water bodies greater than 0.08 hectares (1 LS pixel) including oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Ice / Snow:  Land areas covered permanently or nearly permanent with ice or snow</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Clouds:  Areas where no land cover interpretation is possible due to obstruction from clouds, cloud shadows, smoke, haze, or satellite malfunction</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Woody Wetlands:  Areas where forest or shrubland vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate periodically is saturated with, or covered by water.<i> <font color='#b22222'>Only used within the continental U.S.</font></i></span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Mixed Forest:  Areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. Neither deciduous nor evergreen species are greater than 75% of total tree cover. <i><font color='#b22222'>Only used within the continental U.S.</font></i></span><br /></li><li><font color='#808080'><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Not Used</span><br /></font></li><li><font color='#808080'><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Not Used</span><br /></font></li><li><font color='#808080'><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Not Used</span><br /></font></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font color='#808080'>Not Used</font></span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>High Density Urban:  Areas with over 70% of constructed materials that are a minimum of 60 meters wide (asphalt, concrete, buildings, etc.). Includes residential areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation where constructed materials account for &gt;60%. Commercial, industrial, and transportation i.e., Train stations, airports, etc.</span><br /></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Medium-Low Density Urban:  Areas with 30%-70% of constructed materials that are a minimum of 60 meters wide (asphalt, concrete, buildings, etc.). Includes residential areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation, where constructed materials account for greater than 40%. Commercial, industrial, and transportation i.e., Train stations, airports, etc.</span></li></ol></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><span style='color: rgb(77, 77, 77);'><font size='4'><font size='4'><font size='3'>MDA updated the underlying data in late 2016 and this service was updated in February 2017. An improved selection of cloud-free images was used to produce the update, resulting in improvement of classification quality to 80% of the tiles for this service.<br /><br /></font></font>What can you do with this layer?</font></span><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'>This layer can be used to create maps and to visualize the underlying data across the ArcGIS platform. It can also be used as an analytic input in ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro.<span style='color: rgb(77, 77, 77);'><br /></span></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'><br /></div><div style='font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: &quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;'>This layer has query, identify, and export image services available.  The layer is restricted to an 16,000 x 16,000 pixel limit, which represents an area of nearly 300 miles on a side. This layer is part of a larger collection of <a href='http://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?owner=esri&amp;title=Landscape%20Layers' style='color: rgb(0, 121, 193); text-decoration-line: none;' target='_blank'>landscape layers</a> that you can use to perform a wide variety of mapping and analysis tasks.</div>