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    • SAFARI 2000 NBI Vegetation Map of the Savannas of Southern Africa

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The National Botanical Institute (NBI) has mapped woody plant species distribution to provide estimates of individual species contribution to peak leaf area index for designated vegetation types in southern Africa (Rutherford et al., 2000). The target was to account for 80% of the woody vegetation leaf area in terms of named species, for 80% of the surface area of Africa south of the equator. The data sources include published and unpublished species lists for vegetation types and individual sample plots, with the species contribution estimated by local experts in terms of dominants and subdominants. Source maps include: Low and Rebelo (1998); Giess (1971); Wild and Barbosa (1968); Barbosa (1970); and White (1983). Each source map delineates a wide variety of land cover categories that differ from region to region. Because vegetation discontinuities exist along some of the regional borders and a perfectly continuous regional map could not be achieved within the timeframe and budget of the project, the final map is made up of six independent sub-regional maps. A cross-referenced database of woody plant species, in order of species dominance, associated with all mapped units is provided.The data set contains six GIS shapefile archives, each containing a shape file for a given region in southern Africa on a 5 x 5 degree grid. An accompanying ASCII file contains the species list associated with the map files. The regional NBI Vegetation Map (a compilation of the 6 independent sub-regional coverages) is provided as a JPEG image.

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    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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    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2789726555-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-25
    Category SAFARI 2000, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Rutherford, M.C., P. OFarrel, K. Goldberg, G.F. Midgley, L.W. Powrie, S. Ringrose, W. Matheson, and J. Timberlake. 2005. SAFARI 2000 NBI Vegetation Map of the Savannas of Southern Africa. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/787
    Graphic Preview Description Browse Image
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/safari_logo_square.png
    Harvest Object Id 2918be88-3d9f-4eec-83b0-5e777adf0159
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/787
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial 8.0 -35.0 43.0 0.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fd69bfd16556b1623c37232bee9c64503643fd4547908dd8b68a9015ce42c40d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z/2000-12-31T23:59:59Z

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