The Land Cover map of Africa is one regional component of the GLC2000 exercise, conceived and coordinated by the European Commission Joint Research Centre. The GLC2000 maps are based on daily observations made from 1st November 1999 to 31st December 2000 by the VEGETATION sensor on the SPOT 4 satellite. The Africa map legend pays special attention to the forest and savannah biomes. The map shows specific land-cover features as the irrigated agriculture, the ribbons of secondary forest of the swamp forests at a spatial detail never achieved before.
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