Papua New Guinea - Roads, Land Use Land Cover, and Forest Cover Change

This dataset provides the following parameters for Papua New Guinea: 1. Forest Cover Change map 2005-2009-2011 for Oro project area. This map shows secondary and primary forest cover, non-forest, and water, with deforestation for the periods 2005-2009 and 2009-2011. 2. Land Cover map 2011 for Oro and West New Britain project areas. These maps provide a detailed picture of key land cover types including forest, wetlands, shrubland, settlements and oil palm. 3. Roads dataset 2011 for Oro and West New Britain project areas. This dataset provides an updated road network layer for the year 2011. This dataset is one of the products produced under the 2014-2016 World Bank (WBG) European Space Agency (ESA) partnership, and is published in the partnership report: Earth Observation for Sustainable Development, June 2016.

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Author Other International Organization|Private Firms|World Bank Group
Last Updated May 21, 2020, 12:12 (UTC)
Created March 16, 2020, 14:19 (UTC)
Granularity Subnational