Date ( Publication )

1984-01-01

Identifier

IRD_CMR_PEDO_1984_2000000-500000

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 , Geology , Meteorological geographical features , Soil

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )

• climatology , geology , geomorphology , soil map , vegetation

Geounits ( Place )

• Africa , Middle Africa , Cameroon

Keywords ( Theme )

• precipitation , thematic map

Keywords

• project NumeriSud , local coverage

Use limitation

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

IRD (éditeur) (2014): Carte des sols : provinces du Nord et de l'Extrême-Nord. One mosaic of 2 map sheets and an additional map sheet. Scale of 1:2 000 000 to 1:500 000. Date of publication: 1984. 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

500000

Metadata language

fre

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota
• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
• Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information

Publication(s):

Gavaud, M., Brabant, P. (1984): Les sols et les ressources en terres du Nord-Cameroun (Provinces du Nord et de l'Extrême Nord) : cartes à 1:500 000, feuille Nord : Maroua-Kousseri, feuille Sud : Garoua. Paris (FRA) : ORSTOM, Institut français de recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération ; Yaoundé (CMR) : MESRES, Ministère de l'enseignement superieur et de la recherche scientifique, IRA. Institut de la recherche agronomique.

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

723e606e-0c07-4181-a554-33bac45437a1   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