Identification Info
Title	Landuse of Nepal 2010
Date	2010-06-18T15:42:13
Date Type	publication
Schema	iso19139
Abstract	The identification of present status of land use and land cover is the basic for proper land management. It requires detail information about the land, the people and services at local level. The notion 'land cover' refers to the vegetative or non-vegetative characteristics of a portion of the earth’s surface whereas; 'land use' describes some human activity on the surface. As per the Land Use Policy - 2072, eleven land use types are defined. These are agricultural area, residential area, commercial area, industrial area, mine and minerals area, cultural and archaeological area, riverine and lake area, forest, public service are and others. This section aims to discuss on present land use of the District. Existing land use maps, and database were prepared using ground survey method, aerial photographs, satellite images (WorlView-2) as well as varieties of secondary sources (topographical maps, cadastral maps and other relevant land use land cover maps). Land use classification was done with visual interpretation and manual designation of land uses along with extensive field verification in pre-defined hierarchical classification system. The stepwise procedure adopted to generate the land use map included i) geometric correction and Ortho-rectification, ii) classification, iii) visual image interpretation and iv) accuracy assessment. The accuracy of the results was assessed and overall accuracy was obtained as 95.59 percent with KIA coefficient 0.93.
Purpose	Land use data for general purpose
Status	completed
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	Landuse
Spatial Representation Type	vector
Spatial Resolution Equivalent Scale	1:50,000
Descriptive Keyword	Land cover, land use, Morang, Nepal

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level
Date	2010-06-18T15:42:13
Standard Name	ISO 19115:2010/19139

Contact
Name	Er. Rajeev Gyawali
Organization Name	Survey Department
Position name	Survey Officer
Role	author

Cited Responsible
Individual Name	Mr. Prakash Joshi
Organization Name	Survey Department
Position name	Director General
Role	distributor

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	916907.743 m
Geographic Extent West	115727.226 m
Geographic Extent North	3371453.500 m
Geographic Extent South	2919115.616 m

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation
Access Constraints	copyright
Use Constraints	otherRestrictions

Reference System Information
Code	Everest Modified UTM 84

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	attributeType
Statement	The accuracy of the Digital Data prepared depends on the base source Data and Maps. No assessment or ground truthing has been carried out on this data.

Distributor Info
Individual Name	Mr. Prakash Joshi
Organization Name	Survey Department
Position name	Director General
Role	distributor