South African National Land Cover (SANLC)¶

The South African National Land Cover (SANLC) datasets are a series of land cover classification datasets for South Africa. The datasets are based on the gazetted land-cover classification standard (SANS 19144-2) and have 73 classes of information. New updates includes the 2020 SANLC apart from the 2018 dataset included earlier.The South African National Land-Cover 2018 dataset has been generated from 20 meter multi-seasonal Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The imagery used represents the full temporal range of available imagery acquired by Sentinel 2 during the period 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. The SANLC 2018 dataset is based primarily on the new gazetted land-cover classification standard (SANS 19144-2) with 73 classes of information and is comparable, with the previous 1990 and 2013-14 South African National Land-Cover (SANLC) datasets. The previous land cover classes are also included for comparisons.

The SANLC 2018 data was launched on the 1^st October 2019 and is now available for download from the E-GIS website, download link: https://egis.environment.gov.za/gis_data_downloads.

Earth Engine Snippet¶

var sa_nlc2018 = ee.Image('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landcover/SA_NLC_1990');
var sa_nlc2018 = ee.Image('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landcover/SA_NLC_2018');
var sa_nlc2013_2014 = ee.Image('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landcover/SA_NLC_2013_2014');
var sa_nlc_2020 = ee.Image('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/landcover/SA_NLC_2020');

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?scriptPath=users/sat-io/awesome-gee-catalog-examples:regional-landuse-landcover/SOUTH-AFRICA-LULC

License¶

The South African National Land-Cover 2018 dataset is available on an open licence agreement.

Created by: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Republic of South Africa

Curated by: Geethen Singh & Samapriya Roy

Keywords: : land use, South Africa, land cover, Sentinel-2, copernicus, sentinel, satellite

Last updated: 2023-09-07