Kenya_Seagrass

Polygons represent mangrove areas in Kenya.This is a shape file of mangrove cover of Kenya coast derived from Landsat 7. Mangroves forests cover map was created through a supervised digital image classification techniques. The data are available at 30-m spatial resolution. A cover 430.60 square kilometer was realized for Kenya coastline.

The Kenya Crop Land layer provides information on the extent of cropland, area specific major crop and other crops being grown in the same location. This layer was generated from the Landsat 8 - 30 meters resolution imagery data for September/October 2000 and validated using location points collected from subsequent field visits.

This data set represents land cover map for the year 2016. This layer was clipped from Sentinel-2 global land cover data.

Data represents the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 30 metres image for Kenya.These SRTM was created through mosaicking tiles and clippingto the extent of the country

The Kenya Crop Land layer provides information on the extent of cropland, area specific major crop and other crops being grown in the same location. This layer was generated from the Landsat 8 - 30 meters resolution imagery data for September/October 2015 and validated using location points collected from subsequent field visits.

Layer showing changes in Kenya maize land areas from 2000 to 2010.