South African National Land Cover 2018¶
The new 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 SANLC 2018 data was launched on the 1st 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_2018');
Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/0c9d51577e15437d2b17728079bb01f2
| No. | Legend Colour | 2018 NLC Class Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | #F2F2F2 | Contiguous (indigenous) Forest (combined very high, high, medium) |
| 2 | #065106 | Contiguous Low Forest & Thicket (combined classes) |
| 3 | #005F00 | Dense Forest & Woodland (35 - 75% cc) |
| 4 | #008500 | Open Woodland (10 - 35% cc) |
| 5 | #F74006 | Contiguous & Dense Planted Forest (combined classes) |
| 6 | #F9764D | Open & Sparse Planted Forest |
| 7 | #F9906C | Temporary Unplanted Forest |
| 8 | #B8ABD1 | Low Shrubland (other regions) |
| 9 | #8FAB39 | Low Shrubland (Fynbos) |
| 10 | #AC92C5 | Low Shrubland (Succulent Karoo) |
| 11 | #AC9CDA | Low Shrubland (Nama Karoo) |
| 12 | #85D285 | Sparsely Wooded Grassland (5 - 10% cc) |
| 13 | #D2B485 | Natural Grassland |
| 14 | #00009F | Natural Rivers |
| 15 | #041FA7 | Natural Estuaries & Lagoons |
| 16 | #0639AB | Natural Ocean, Coastal |
| 17 | #0D50AC | Natural Lakes |
| 18 | #125FAC | Natural Pans (flooded @ obsv time) |
| 19 | #1373B4 | Artificial Dams (incl. canals) |
| 20 | #1D81B6 | Artificial Sewage Ponds |
| 21 | #1F8EB8 | Artificial Flooded Mine Pits |
| 22 | #06DEDC | Herbaceous Wetlands (currently mapped) |
| 23 | #06E0D0 | Herbaceous Wetlands (previous mapped extent) |
| 24 | #9F1FEC | Mangrove Wetlands |
| 25 | #ffffe0 | Natural Rock Surfaces |
| 26 | #DCDAC5 | Dry Pans |
| 27 | #F9E0E0 | Eroded Lands |
| 28 | #F9F9C5 | Sand Dunes (terrestrial) |
| 29 | #F9F9A7 | Coastal Sand Dunes & Beach Sand |
| 30 | #CDD2E0 | Bare Riverbed Material |
| 31 | #ffffe0 | Other Bare |
| 32 | #A62C39 | Cultivated Commercial Permanent Orchards |
| 33 | #B31F5C | Cultivated Commercial Permanent Vines |
| 34 | #DB0000 | Cultivated Commercial Sugarcane Pivot Irrigated |
| 35 | #9F3978 | Commercial Permanent Pineapples |
| 36 | #FF0000 | Cultivated Commercial Sugarcane Non-Pivot (all other) |
| 37 | #F64D6C | Cultivated Emerging Farmer Sugarcane Non-Pivot (all other) |
| 38 | #381A12 | Commercial Annuals Pivot Irrigated |
| 39 | #521F1C | Commercial Annuals Non-Pivot Irrigated |
| 40 | #85402C | Commercial Annuals Crops Rain-Fed / Dryland / Non-Irrigated |
| 41 | #C5735F | Subsistence / Small-Scale Annual Crops |
| 42 | #C1436C | Fallow Land & Old Fields (Trees) |
| 43 | #C55E82 | Fallow Land & Old Fields (Bush) |
| 44 | #D27592 | Fallow Land & Old Fields (Grass) |
| 45 | #E0AAB8 | Fallow Land & Old Fields (Bare) |
| 46 | #DB90A9 | Fallow Land & Old Fields (Low Shrub) |
| 47 | #ECDB0F | Residential Formal (Tree) |
| 48 | #F6EC13 | Residential Formal (Bush) |
| 49 | #F9F81F | Residential Formal (low veg / grass) |
| 50 | #FFFF29 | Residential Formal (Bare) |
| 51 | #EC82EC | Residential Informal (Tree) |
| 52 | #F691E0 | Residential Informal (Bush) |
| 53 | #F99FCF | Residential Informal (low veg / grass) |
| 54 | #FFC5CF | Residential Informal (Bare) |
| 55 | #ECC500 | Village Scattered (bare only) |
| 56 | #FFD91F | Village Dense (bare only) |
| 57 | #AC7879 | Smallholdings (Tree) |
| 58 | #B89192 | Smallholdings (Bush) |
| 59 | #C49C9E | Smallholdings (low veg / grass) |
| 60 | #D2B8B8 | Smallholdings (Bare) |
| 61 | #BFFF00 | Urban Recreational Fields (Tree) |
| 62 | #33FF33 | Urban Recreational Fields (Bush) |
| 63 | #66FF66 | Urban Recreational Fields (Grass) |
| 64 | #99FF99 | Urban Recreational Fields (Bare) |
| 65 | #C49F0D | Commercial |
| 66 | #8F8506 | Industrial |
| 67 | #F9DD03 | Roads & Rail (Major Linear) |
| 68 | #FFFF00 | Mines: Surface Infrastructure |
| 69 | #B30606 | Mines: Extraction Sites: Open Cast & Quarries combined |
| 70 | #C50606 | Mines: Extraction Sites: Salt Mines |
| 71 | #D21D1A | Mines: Waste (Tailings) & Resource Dumps |
| 72 | #F95479 | Land-fills |
| 73 | #6CE7DC | Fallow Land & Old Fields (wetlands) |
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: Samapriya Roy
Keywords: : land use, South Africa, land cover, Sentinel-2, copernicus, sentinel, satellite
Last updated: 2021-06-15