Land Cover (2018)

Data Description:

Very-high resolution land cover classification (3-meter resolution) in central India from February – March 2018. The coverage region is broken into 233 study area zones. Each zone has a corresponding land cover classification tile.

The land cover classification (class 1: water, class 2: tree, class 3 and 5: cropland, class 4: bare ground, class 6: built environment) was performed using a Random Forest classifier in Google Earth Engine on Planet Labs PlanetScope imagery.

The landcover tiles can be downloaded from the link below and study area zones can be downloaded directly as a zip file.

Recommended Citation:

Khanwilkar, S., Galletti, C., Mondal, P., Urpelainen, J., Nagendra, H., Jhala, Y.V., Quresh, Q.,DeFries, R. (2021). Tropical Deciduous Forests of South Asia: Land Cover Classification and Monitoring Forest Degradation Using the Bare Ground Index LULC. NASA LCLUC Metadata. Accessed [Insert Date] from https://lcluc.umd.edu/metadatafiles/LCLUC-2017-PIDefries/.

Download Links:

Land Cover Tiles (To download, click on links from ‘Classified_0.tif’ to ‘Classified_232.tif’)
Study Area Zones (92 KB)