Land use of the Laksip village south of the National Road 13, Northern Lao PDR (2016)

This dataset has been collected thanks to the long-term partnership with Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM), Lao PDR, which granted the permission for field access, and to the financial, scientific, technical, and/or logistical support of the Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS (SNO M-TROPICS; https://mtropics.obs-mip.fr/) critical zone observatory (previously MSEC). This dataset made of a .shp with associated .dbf, .prj, and .shx files (Coordinate Reference System: EPSG:4326 - WGS 84) includes land-use information of the Laksip village, Northern Lao PDR, upstream the station BLS (LAT: 19.848421; LONG: 102.168295). Land-use survey was performed in August 2016. The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), including for the postdoctoral grant 2016-2017 of Laurie Boithias (Accueil de post-doctorants / Campagne 2015), and of the French National Research Agency (TecItEasy project ANR-13-AGRO-0007).