Reference Database for Land Use Classification in Murewa District, Zimbabwe (2023)

The reference database comprises a total of 4,378 vectorized polygons, collected in the district of Murewa, Zimbabwe, for the year 2023. These polygons were created for training a supervised classification algorithm for satellite image analysis for the production of land use maps. The database contains ground truth data collected in February 2023 through GPS surveys, conducted during the middle of the growing season. Polygon boundaries were meticulously delineated based on photo-interpretation of Pléiades images, acquired in February 2023, with a 50 cm spatial resolution. The database is projected in CRS: EPSG:32736 / UMT zone 36s and stored in GeoJSON format.