Kenya Administrative Units, Drainage, Agro-Climatic Zones, Rainfall, Infrastructure

Description:
These datasets (Administrative Units, Drainage, Agro-Climatic Zones,
Rainfall, Infrastructure) were scanned by the Canadian Land data
Systems Division, Land Directorate, Dept of Environment, Ottawa,
Canada. This was in response to the request to GRID by the Kenya
Ministry of Agriculture to assist in creating the datasets.

The source information and scales are varied; Rivers, Agroecological
Zones, Soils, Boundaries, Towns, Lakes, Transport, and the Districts,
Provinces (administrative boundary), Elevation were based on the scale
of 1: 1 000 000 and of which the source information was derived from
Ministry of Agriculture and Survey of Kenya maps. The Landuse dataset
was based on the Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit (KREMU now
DRSRS) map at the scale of 1: 1 000 000.The Mean Annual Rainfall
dataset was based on an East Africa map(1966) at the scale of 1: 2 000
000

Rainfall data was originally provided by Kenya Meteorological
Department. These were collected from a total of 79 Stations for the
period between 1982-1988. More records were added by GRID which
extended the period to 1991 The data consists of the
rainfall,Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and Temperature
information.

Sample
Files:
RAINFALL.E00
FILL8291.PLU, PETALL.DBF/.NDX, ADD82,83,84,85,86.DAT
(Others available on request)

Vector Members:
- Files are in an ArcInfo Export format