Use
This section aims at facilitating and promoting the use and exploitation of Land Cover data. It includes a user guide to import a symbology to be use to better represent Land Cover data.
User Guide
- Importing a symbology to a Land Cover dataset with ArcGIS. Guide to import, 2009-09-01 [pdf 842 Ko]
This guide presents the methodology to import a symbology from a layer (.lyr) file to be applied to a Land Cover Dataset.
It is suggested to import the symbology of the following file [lyr 25 Ko]
Tools
Free Data Viewer
We offer a few links to freeware which can be used to display downloaded NHN data. However, take note that GeoBase does not endorse nor support any of these.
- ArcExplorer distributed by ESRI: http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/explorer.html
- Caris Easy View: http://www.caris.com/products/easy-view/.
- Geomatica 10 FreeView provided by PCI Geomatics: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/Forms/RequestFreeView.php
- Map Maker Gratis provided by Map Maker: http://www.mapmaker.com/
- Quantum GIS: http://www.qgis.org.
- Udig: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home.
- gvSig: http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig&L=2.
Legend
This document offer a representation of the choice of the cover type used according to the data source as well as the color and the color code associate to it [pdf 33 Ko]