Kapuas Hulu Ecological Vegetation Map 1:50 000

The Center International for Research on Agronomy and Development (CIRAD) in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) completed extensive research on participatory landscape management and produced large-scale ecological vegetation maps for the Kapuas Hulu regency in West Kalimantan (CoLUPSIA EU funded project). These 1:50,000 scale maps cover more than 60 classes of natural and man-made vegetation including various forest types, but also details on logged-over areas, peat swamps, heath forest, oil palm estate, various mixed agroforestry systems, mosaics of fallows and smallholder agriculture. The vegetation maps were generated using Landsat satellite images (2019). Landscapes are pre-stratified according to climate, geomorphology, types of soil, catchment areas and elevation classes, and interpretation is a combination of supervised classification and manual digitization on screen. The work is supplemented by extensive ground checking with detailed ecological surveys. The various types are denoted using colour coding and symbols based on the cartographic principles of ecological mapping, one colour representing one vegetation type and its succession. For example, a solid green colour is assigned to lowland forest and its first degradation level, logging, is represented with green mixed with horizontal white stripes, indicating the depletion of the original forest type. These large-scale vegetation maps are important sources of information for land allocation and ecosystem-based management, both for the private and public sectors and help as well recognize potential areas or specific forest types or High Conservation Value forest for conservation. This Dataverse dataset supports pdf files only. For downloading shape files of the map, use the alternative url: https://www2.cifor.org/map/vegetation/