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Thematic page Land data
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Data about farming practices / activities, normally for the purpose of compiling agricultural census statistics. Normally associated with land use data. -
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Land cover indicates the physical land type such as forest or open water. Land cover data documents how much of a region is covered by forests, wetlands, impervious surfaces, agriculture, and other land and water types. Land cover can be determined by analyzing satellite and aerial imagery. (Source: NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lclu.html) -
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Data including the location, dimensions, boundaries and ownership of land parcels, which may also include details such as titles and specified land use.-
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Cadaster data come from official cadasters maintained by the public administration in a country, Cadaster data records the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country. -
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Data about land ownership in countries or communities with informal land ownership regulations, not covered by national cadasters
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Data regarding agricultural land usage and changes in usage, such as different crop or vegetation cover. Land use shows how people use the landscape – whether for development, conservation, or mixed uses
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Data related to consumable products, such as menu and recipe information and ingredients, and may include a breakdown of treatments and pesticide usage. -
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Basic geospatial data, including raster and vector maps, administrative boundaries, points of data. Data including topographic and physical maps (and satellite or laser imagery) of natural features such as mountains, rivers and forests, and transport and building infrastructure. -
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Government data regarding official records, which may include relevant licenses and permits, safety inspection data, tariffs rates and pesticide usage data. -
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Various population and agricultural-related data, which may include employment statistics, food security indicators, amounts of land dedicated to/value added by different crops, crop yields, fertiliser and irrigation usage, and other agricultural production details.
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ACORD
ACORD International uses a set of 180 tags to classify their content on their website. There is no particular hierarchy between the terms, and they include geographical areas, resources types,...
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Actuar
Actuar has 9 categories according to which they categorize their resources. These categories are resource types as well as topical categories. The categories are not available for download or used...
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AgEcon
AgEcon is a repository for agriculture-related resources, using 81 "top-tier" subjects to enable the user to browse the website. To classify the content further, they have a "free tagging system" for...
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AGTER
AGTER has a list of 10 keywords that they use for their users to browse the website for relevant resources more easily. There is no hierarchy between the terms. The list is not available for download...
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Amigos de la Tierra
Amigos de la Tierra has a short list of categories which they use to facilitate browsing for their users. There is no hierarchy between the categories, nor are they used anywhere else or available...
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Asian Farmers Association
The Asian Farmers Association, like many local organizations, does not classify its content topically at all, but merely categorizes its resources by resource type and nothing else.
LICADHO
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Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights
LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, has a set list of topics under which they categorize their content. Besides that, they have a set list of tags to classify...
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University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne. Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures & Land Administration (CSDILA)
The "Cadastral Template 2.0" has been developed by a research group at the Centre for SDIs and Land administration, Department of Infrastructure Engineering of the University of Melbourne and it was...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Definitions and Classification of Land Use, Agricultural Practices and Irrigation. Used in FAOSTAT.
LCCS
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) is a comprehensive, standardized a priori classification system, designed to meet specific user requirements, and created for mapping exercises,...
FOLA
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Focus on Land in Africa
Focus on Land in Africa has published a glossary of almost 100 key terms on land governance and land tenure. This glossary is used as a resource tool in itself, to show users how the authors of the...
GLII
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Global Land Tool Network
The GLII glossary of terms is not available publicly yet, but will be published as a glossary of core land-related terms that will be used as a mechanism to compare progress of countries with regards...
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International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
The International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP) defines ecosystems surface classifications.
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International Land Coalition
The International Land Coalition uses the Commitments from their Strategy to classify the topical areas of the resources they publish on their website. There is no particular hierarchy between the...
LCML
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International Standards Organisation
ISO 19144-2:2012 specifies a Land Cover Meta Language (LCML) expressed as a UML metamodel that allows different land cover classification systems to be described based on the physiognomic aspects...
LC-CCI
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Climate Change Initiative (CCI)
The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) generates global Land Cover (LC) products with climatological 7-day time series representing seasonal dynamics of the land surface, Medium Resolution Imaging...
WCA LU
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO guidelines for countries to compile ther agricultural census statistics. The use of these guidelines by member countries ensures that the census results are harmonized and internationally...
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Six broad land-use categories form the basis of estimating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use and land-use conversions. The land uses may be considered as top-level...
LandVoc
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The Land Portal Foundation
LandVoc is the standardized vocabulary for concepts relating to land governance, curated by the Land Portal Foundation.
ODM
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Open Development Mekong
Open Development Mekong has a development taxonomy, available in JSON format, with a top-tier hierarchy of 17 terms, with many terms under it. The full list can be found through the second list, on...
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Resource Equity
Resource Equity has developed their own standard list of topical keywords, specific to their focus area: Gender & land rights. The topical keywords are a simple list with no hierarchy, nor is it...
RRI
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Rights and Resources Institute
The Rights and Resources Institute classifies the resources through 4 very general 'issues' and 3 of their own initiatives for the user to browse. This is not a standard that can be applied by other...
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Statistical Commission of the United Nations
Land cover being altogether the observed image of ecosystems and of the effects of land use, practical classification may put the emphasis either on vegetation forms or on landscape features shaped...
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Statistical Commission of the United Nations
A consolidated land use classification to be used in the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA), based on the major LU databases at the global level and the work of FAO...
LADM
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Standards Organisation
ISO 19152:2012 defines a reference Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) covering basic information-related components of land administration (including those over water and land, and elements...
STDM
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
There is a gap in the conventional land administration systems such that customary and informal tenure cannot be easily handled. There is a need for complimentary approaches in land administration...
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Habitat for Humanity LAC
Habitat for Humanity LAC has developed a platform, Suelo Urbano, on which they use top-tier categorization similar to the Global Land Tool Network. Below the top-tier terms, they have a set of tags...