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WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forests of Congo (Classification of Forest Types)

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New-ID: NBI59 This data set presents a classification of African closed moist tropical forest for Congo.

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The Africa WCMC Closed Moist Tropical Forest Dataset documentation File: CONGOVEG.E00 Code: 117001-001 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. REMARK: The export files include annotation. however it is not possible to import the files with it.

We had to edit in the export file (E00) just before the annotation the TXT command in TX8. The annotations are then lost but the file can import without problems. The Africa Closed Moist Tropical Forest dataset is a compilation of national maps into comparable units by the World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) in Great-Britain.

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The maps were taken for each country for Africa from national maps and legend units were generally grouped into 13 classes, describing forest types. Contact : UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P O Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya In total 13 classes are compiled 10 = Water bodies 130 = Degradated Rain Forest 111 = Mangroves 500 = Dry Forest 112 = Degradated Mangroves 510 = Pine Forest 113 = Inland Swamp Forest 114 = Degradated inland Samp Forest 900 = Non Forest 121 = Montane Rain Forest 999 = No Data 122 = Lowland Rain Forest 123 = Sun Montande Rian Forest In almost all coverages water bodies are labelled as 0 References: WCMC Biodiversity Map Library.

Closed Moist Tropical Forests and Managed Areas Data, February 1992. Begue, L. (1967). Les forets du nord de la Republique du Congo (Brazzaville).

Bois et Forets Tropicales 111: 63-76. Descoings, B. (1969). Phytogeographique du Congo.

In: Atlas du Congo. ORSTOM (1 carte couleurs 1:2 million, 2 pages de texte). Descoings, B. (1975).

Les grandes regions naturelles du Congo. Candollea 30: 91-120. Cusset, G. (1989).

La flore et la vegetation du mayombe congolais. Etat des connaissance. In: Revue des Connaissances sur le Mayombe.

Unesco/PNUD, Republique Populaire du Congo. pp. 103-136. Koechlin, J. (1961). La Vegetation des Savanes dans le Sud de la Republique du Congo (Capitale Brazzaville).

ORSTOM, Paris, 310 pp. Source : ONC (1982); Republique Populaire du Congo (1990). Publication Date : February 1992 Projection : Mercator, mentioned when different Related Datasets : White vegtation map Keywords : WCMC, dry grassland/bush, swamp grassland/bush, lowland rain forest, inland swamp.

The Legend is in all coverages 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)

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Stated by source: Forests · Not provided

Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
NASA Earthdata CMR	C2232846623-CEOS_EXTRA	14 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecosystems/terrestrial-ecosystems/forests	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
description	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/Abstract
spatial	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/SpatialExtent
temporal	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/TemporalExtents
title	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0	/umm/EntryTitle
version_label	source · NASA CMR	connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0

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