Senegal Vegetation Types (UNEP/GRID/WHO/CISFAM)

New-ID: NBI157 The Vegetation Types of Senegal Dataset Documentation File: SENEGAL3.IMG Code: 146004-001 Raster Member IMG file is in IDRISI format Originally digitized for the UNEP/FAO/ESRI Database for Africa from the UNESCO Vegetation maps of the Mediterrannean and the area south of the Sahara, as well as NOAA chlorophyl index imagery. To provide an adequate estimate of actual vegetative structure and crown cover, Defence Mapping Agency (DMA) sheets at 1:2000000, were photo-reduced and overlaid with the FAO base maps to add vegetation structure and average density for forest, tree savanna and bunch grass.

GRID-Geneva rasterized the Senegal Vegetation Types dataset for UNEP/GRID/WHO/CISFAM Senegal Database with a cell size of 30 seconds and two minutes lat/lon (approximately one- and four kilometeter-square pixels, respectively). The Vegetation patterns were given a 2-digit code number: the first digit is the vegetation type second digit indicates drainage condition: 1, 2, 8 = INUNDATED 9 = NOT INUNDATED or RICE Contact: UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P.O. Box 30552 Nairobi, Kenya FAO, Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, 00100, Rome, Italy The SENEGAL3 file shows vegetation patterns of Senegal.