Date ( Publication )

1964-01-01

Identifier

IRD_-AF_VEGE_1964_5000000

Credit

The region Île-de-France, under the project NumeriSud, supported the action to transforme around 2800 maps that are conserved at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) library in Bondy into a standard coordinate system. The transformation of the images has been done by:

GMR (Global Mapping Resources)

P.O. Box 414113

Craighall 2024

South Africa

email: Maurizio@madmappers.com

www: http://www.madmappers.com

GRM has extensive international experience in this kind of work.

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes ( Theme )

• Bio-geographical regions

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )

• vegetation

Geounits ( Place )

• Africa

  ,

  Western Africa

  ,

  Benin

  ,

  Burkina Faso

  ,

  Gambia

  ,

  Ghana

  ,

  Guinea

  ,

  Guinea Bissau

  ,

  Ivory Coast

  ,

  Mali

  ,

  Mauritania

  ,

  Niger

  ,

  Nigeria

  ,

  Senegal

  ,

  Sierra Leone

  ,

  Togo

Keywords ( Theme )

• thematic map

Keywords

• project NumeriSud

  ,

  regional coverage

Use limitation

If you reuse this data you must cite this dataset as follows:

IRD (éditeur) (2014): Carte de la végétation de l'Afrique tropicale occidentale : distribution géographique des prospections effectuées de 1934 à 1955. One map sheet. Scale of 1:5 000 000. Date of publication: 1964. Project NumeriSud SPHAERA-GEO. Bondy, France.

Additionally, you must acknowledge the following resource:

Zaiss, R. (éditeur) (2014): Project NumeriSud SPHAERA-GEO, Géoréférencement et mosaïquage des cartes de l’IRD. Bondy, France.

Access constraints

licence

Classification

Unclassified

Spatial representation type

Grid

Denominator

5000000

Metadata language

fre

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Supplemental Information

Publication(s):

Roberty, G. (1964): Carte de la végétation de l'Afrique tropicale occidentale à l'échelle de 1/1 000 000 : documents annexes : 1 - introduction et glossaires. Paris (FRA) : ORSTOM, Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre mer, Service cartographique.

Reference system identifier

EPSG

/

WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

/

7.9

Distribution format

• ECW

  (

  GlobalMapper 10

  )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

1. Scanning to tif format, 256 colors, 250dpi.

2. Georeferencing and if possible reprojection to WGS84 (Longitude / Latitude).

3. Clipping and mosaicing of map sheets(s).

4. Export ECW format.

Metadata

File identifier

dc9172a6-60d3-4b13-a458-f5f4b900cc6c   XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2016-01-01T12:04:21

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0