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)