Reference Land Cover Change in Niassa-Selous 2000-2017 (vector) - version 1, June 2020

This metadata refers to the Land Cover Change vector data generated over Niassa-Selous (Africa) for 2000-2017 in the framework of the Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Mapping (C-GL-HSM) contract under the coordination of JRC. This area of interest is either mapped with the generic 8 classes dichotomus legend (EAF_04_lcc_a) or the detailed modular legend (EAF_04_lcc_b). The mapped area of interest (AOI) represents a Key Landscape for Conservation area (KLC). The KLC has a total size of almost 14,000,000 million ha (140,000 km²) and is covering a vast area in southern Tanzania all the way to northern Mozambique. Reference time: 2000 - 2017