Gro for GooD Land Cover Land Use Data 1990 & 2015, Kwale County, Kenya (NERC grant NE/M008894/1)
This data set contains land cover/land use data for the year 1990 and 2015 obtained through processing of Landsat images of US Geological Survey. These data sets were obtained through a supervised classification carried out with Landsat 8 image for 2015; Landsat 4 and 5 were used for land use classification of 1990. Gro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development
dataset
:
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607231
English
Geoscientific information
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences:
NGDC Deposited Data
Free:
Free:
NERC_DDC
38.4500,
-4.6700,
39.7000,
-3.5500
creation: 2017-11-17
1990-01-01
-
2015-12-31
text table
University of Oxford
Dr R A Hope
Oxford,
OX1 3QY
email:
not available
Role: principal investigator
University of Oxford
Nancy Gladstone
Oxford,
OX1 3QY
email:
not available
Role: point of contact
Rural Focus Ltd
Mike Thomas
P.O. Box 1011-10400,
Nanyuki,
Kenya
email:
not available
Role: originator
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
John Gathenya
Nairobi
email:
not available
Role: originator
Data Quality
Imagery used in the analysis was downloaded from the Earth Explorer USGS image database (Landsat Imagery Archive). A number of images for the 1990 land cover were combined i.e. 1992, 1991, 1995 and small section of 1997. This was done for cloud removal purposes alongside cloud cover removal algorithms applied for areas with less than 50% cloud cover. Cloud cover was not a major problem for 2015 images. Landsat 166063 was used for the classification for the years mentioned above. Image pre-processing procedures; cloud cover removal using the assessment cloud cover algorithm mosaicking of different images as cloud removal tools was applied. The images were set to WGS84 UTM zone 37s. [See Landuse landcover methodology.txt file within the zip data set for further details]
INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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Metadata about metadata
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British Geological Survey
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NOTTINGHAM,
NG12 5GG,
United Kingdom
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Role: point of contact
2024-04-24