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The South African user needs survey of land cover classes and definitions conducted in May - June 2016 concluded on the classes and definitions listed in this document. The demand to have a standardised and compatible the land cover data sets it’s
important for the mapping and monitoring wide areas in a consistent manner. These classes are developed in a hierarchical structure because it offers the consistency and accommodates different levels of information depending on the scale of mapping and the source data used for mapping. The structure has 4 levels and can be defined as higher to lower level. The higher levels are defined as analytical criteria and at the lower levels the analytical criteria increases. Class criteria are not repeated per level. Level 4 is a class measure which is based on the source data to be used during mapping, it also dependent on the scale of mapping.
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