WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forest of Liberia (Classification of Forest Types)

New-ID: NBI69

This data set presents a classification of African closed moist
tropical forest for Liberia.

The WCMC Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest Database documentation

File: LIBERIA.E00 Code: 130001-001

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:

10 = Water bodies 130 = Degraded Rain Forest
111 = Mangrove 500 = Dry Forest
112 = Degraded Mangrove 510 = Pine Forest
113 = Inland Swamp
114 = Degraded inland Swamp 900 = Cultivated, shrub, grassland
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.
White. "The Vegetation of Africa" (1983), scale 1:
Forestry Devt. Authority of Liberia. National Forest and Parks
(nd), scale 1:2 m.

Source : NOAA/AVHRR-LAC, National Forest and Parks (Liberia), scale: 1:2 m
Publication Date : February 1992
Projection : unknown
Related Datasets : White"'"s vegetation map
Keywords : WCMC, forests, NOAA/AVHRR-LAC, national parks

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)