Bush Encroachment and Land Cover Change

The dataset shows landcover change between 1990 (lcov_1990) and 2013 (lcov_2013). Attribute information includes ; pagenumber, mapcode12 (vegetation type), dn_new (aboveground carbon values-DMt/ha), lcov_1990, lcov_2013, parent1990 (general landcover name), parent2013, old_new (landcover change), parent_old_new (landcover change by name), dn_ave_1990 (average for each landcover in 1990), dn_ave_2013, dn_ave_change (average carbon change between 1990 and 2013); and boolean information for the following: bush encroachment, grass encroachment, perturbation, degradation, restoration, habitat loss. Landcover data entries were obtained from Landsat satellite images used to generate landcover information into 72 landcover types; vegetation type is collected by SANBI; Aboveground woody biomass (carbon values) collected from high resolution data in the Savannah (CSIR- DMt/ha at 100m resolution) or from lower resolution data for the rest of the country (1km).