Date ( Publication )

1961-01-01

Identifier

IRD_MDG_PEDO_1961_20000

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 )

• Soil

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )

• soil map

Geounits ( Place )

• Africa , Eastern Africa , Madagascar

Keywords ( Theme )

• thematic map

Keywords

• project NumeriSud , local coverage

Use limitation

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

IRD (éditeur) (2014): Cartes des sols de la plaine de Vohipeno. One map sheet. Scale of 1:20 000. Date of publication: 1961. 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

20000

Metadata language

fre

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information

Publication(s):

Ratasilahy, J. R., Riquier, J. (1961): Notices sur les cartes pédologiques de reconnaissance : feuille No 17. Les sols de la plaine de Vohipeno. Tananarive Tsimbazaza (MDG) : ORSTOM, Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre mer ; Tananarive Tsimbazaza (MDG) : IRSM, Institut de recherche scientifique de Madagascar, Service géographique.

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

2fe6b33a-568b-478f-9e3e-f6e6a6c6c52a   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