| 5.24 LAND CLEARED FOR CULTIVATION - 5X5 GRID |
| Data ID |
| Description: | 5x5km grid depicting the area and proportion of land which has been cleared across the country |
| Chapter: | 5 Land and History |
| File name: | land cleared for cultivation |
| File type: | Arcview shapefile |
| Geographical area: | Namibia |
| Keywords: | land |
| | cultivation |
| | cleared |
| Notes on data, analysis and | Areas cleared for cultivation were digitised off aerial photographs and satellite images taken since 1996 for various |
| compilation: | projects (Mendelsohn, J.M. & Roberts, C.S. 1997. An Environmental Profile and Atlas of Caprivi. Directorate of |
| | Environmental Affairs, Windhoek, Namibia; Mendelsohn, J.M., el Obeid, S. and Roberts, C.S. 2000. A profile of |
| | north-central Namibia. Gamsberg MacMillan, Windhoek) and this Atlas, as well as 1:50 000 and 1:250 000 mapping |
| | projects by the Directorate of Surveys and Mapping. |
| | |
| | The original shapefile of polygons defining cleared land was unioned to a 5x5km vector shapefile to allow the |
| | calculation of area and percentage of cleared land in each 5km square. |
| Data quality and organisation |
| Positional Accuracy: | derived from data extracted at very high resolution - at least 30m |
| Vector/Raster: | Vector |
| Spatial reference |
| Projection: | Geographic |
| Fields |
| Field name | Field description |
| AREA | Actual area (m2) of the 5x5km square or portion |
| GRID_ID | Id code for each 5x5km square |
| ZX5AREA | Total area (m2) of each 5x5km square |
| CLEAR_AREA | total area (m2) of land cleared in each 5x5km square |
| PERCENT | total percentage of land cleared in 5x5km square |
| Source/Distribution |
| Data Source: | Atlas of Namibia |
| Contact: |
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| Distribution notes: | Unrestricted |