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Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

The Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status consists of GIS coverages of vegetation classes (forests, woodlands, savannas, shrubs, grasslands, wetlands, rocks, sand, soils, inland waters, parks and reserves) for Central America, derived from 1-kilometer resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery. This data set is produced by Proyecto Ambiental Regional de Centroamerica/Central America Protected Areas Systems (PROARCA/CAPAS), a conservation partnership of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Resources Group, Ltd. (IRG), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Winrock International (WI), and is distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher SEDAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2210248701-SEDAC
Data First Published 1998-12-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category LULC, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 2aa2041f-d26a-49f2-8f00-ed384a48c80b
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -92.0 6.0 -78.0 19.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash f316944d494e6de5ff19d5fd594c92fe85237c4c68dfed157586b86790d57fa9
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z/1993-12-31T00:00:00Z

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