{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Wm Matthew Cushing", "hasEmail": "mailto:mcushing@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This series of three-period land use land cover (LULC) datasets (1975, 2000, and 2013) aids in monitoring change in West Africa\u2019s land resources (exception is Tchad at 4 kilometers). To monitor and map these changes, a 26 general LULC class system was used. The classification system that was developed was primarily inspired by the \u201cYangambi Classification\u201d (Trochain, 1957). This fairly broad class system for LULC was used because the classes can be readily identified on Landsat satellite imagery. A visual photo-interpretation approach was used to identify and map the LULC classes represented on Landsat images. The Rapid Land Cover Mapper (RLCM) was used to facilitate the photo-interpretation using Esri\u2019s ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap software. Citation: Trochain, J.-L., 1957, Accord interafricain sur la d\u00e9finition des types de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation de l\u2019Afrique tropicale: Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes centrafricaines.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/F73N21JF", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5deffc05e4b02caea0f4f3fc.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_5deffc05e4b02caea0f4f3fc", "keyword": ["Benin", "Burkina Faso", "Cape Verde", "Capo Verde", "Cenozoic", "Chad", "C\u00f4te d'Ivoire", "Gambia", "Ghana", "Guinea", "Guinea-Bissau", "Holocene", "Liberia", "Mali", "Mauritania", "Niger", "Nigeria", "Phanerozoic", "Senegal", "Sierra Leone", "Togo", "USGS:5deffc05e4b02caea0f4f3fc", "biota", "land cover", "land use", "land use classes", "landcover", "landuse"], "modified": "2020-08-18T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-25.4145, 3.2650, 24.2457, 18.8831", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "West Africa Land Use Land Cover Time Series"}