SA National Land-Cover Datasets

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What is land cover data and what does it do?

Land cover is the physical material at the surface of earth and includes water, vegetation, bare soil, and artificial structures. Land cover data is a crucial reference dataset that informs a wide variety of activities ranging from environmental planning and protection, economic development, compliance monitoring, enforcement, and strategic decision making.

National Land Cover Project

The National Land Cover Project developed a fully automated, operational process for the production of future national land-cover data for South Africa, based on the gazetted South African Land Cover Classes and definitions approved in terms of the Spatial data Infrastructure Act No. 54 of 2003. The Computer Automated Land cover (CALC) system was developed with the ability to create automated land cover datasets, accuracy assessments and change detection between comparable land cover datasets with supporting reports and metadata. The CALC system has been used to generate the 2018, 2020 and 2022 South African National Land Cover (SANLC) datasets and all associated change assessments.

Change Assessment

All SANLC change assessments and reporting is based on a simplified 20 x class change reporting legend. This change reporting legend is derived from the original 73 x class legend, and represents a series of original-class groupings and amalgamations designed to improve and understanding of key landscape changes and the reporting thereof.

2022 South African National Land Cover and Land Cover Change Data Launch

The Launch was virtually attended by almost 400 stakeholders and interested parties.

Recording (MP4) of the meeting available from this link.

DATA DOWNLOAD

South African National Land Cover (SANLC), 2022

NAME OF DATA SET	RELEASE DATE	FILE FORMAT	SIZE
ACCURACY ASSESSMENT REPORT (REPORT)	23 May 2024	zip	1.40MB
ALBERS (DATASET)	23 May 2024	Zip	395MB
GEOGRAPHIC (DATASET)	23 May 2024	Zip	434MB
LEVEL 1 & LEVEL 2 COLOUR PALLET (REPORT & LAYER FILE)	23 May 2024	Zip	1.36MB

South African National Land Cover (SANLC) Change Assessment Datasets

Please note that Gauteng and the North-West provincial boundaries were corrected for all the change assessment years. The previous change assessments used an older provincial boundary, which has now been corrected.

Date Updated: 23 May 2024

NAME OF DATA SET	RELEASE DATE	FILE FORMAT	SIZE
SA_NLC_1990_2022_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	401MB
SA_NLC_2014_2022_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	385MB
SA_NLC_2018_2022_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	362MB
SA_NLC_2020_2022_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	342MB
SA_NLC_1990_2020_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	387MB
SA_NLC_2014_2020_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	371MB
SA_NLC_2018_2020_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	337MB
SA_NLC_1990_2018_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	401MB
SA_NLC_2014_2018_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	385MB
SA_NLC_1990_2014_CLASS_CHANGE (DATASET AND REPORT)	23 May 2024	Zip	380MB

South African National Land Cover (SANLC), 2020

NAME OF DATA SET	RELEASE DATE	FILE FORMAT	SIZE
ACCURACY ASSESSMENT REPORT (REPORT)	29 June 2021	zip	1.81MB
ALBERS (DATASET)	29 June 2021	Zip	372MB
GEOGRAPHIC (DATASET)	29 June 2021	Zip	409MB
LEVEL 1 & LEVEL 2 COLOUR PALLET (REPORT & LAYER FILE)	29 June 2021	Zip	1.36MB

South African National Land Cover (SANLC), 2018

NAME OF DATA SET	RELEASE DATE	FILE FORMAT	SIZE
ACCURACY ASSESSMENT REPORT (REPORT)	29 June 2021	Zip	1.29MB
ALBERS (DATASET)	29 June 2021	Zip	391MB
GEOGRAPHIC (DATASET)	29 June 2021	Zip	431MB
LEVEL 1 & LEVEL 2 COLOUR PALLET (REPORT & LAYER FILE)	29 June 2021	Zip	1.36MB

South African National Land Cover 2013-14, 35 Classes;

Name of Data Set	Description	Release Date	File Format	Size
Land Cover 2013-14, 35 Classes	Metadata Reports Stats Dates 2013-14	7 June 2016	zip	5.52MB
Land Cover 2013-14, 35 Classes	Original UTM 35 North 2013-14	7 June 2016	zip	223MB
Land Cover 2013-14, 35 Classes	Reprojected GEO 2013-14	7 June 2016	zip	208MB
Land Cover 2013-14, 35 Classes	Reprojected UTM 35 South 2013-14	7 June 2016	zip	224MB

South African National Land Cover Thematic Data 2013-14, 72 Classes

Name of Data Set	Description	Release Date	File Format	Size
Metadata Reports	Metadata Reports	7 June 2016	zip	1.69MB
Original UTM35 NORTH	Original UTM 35 North	7 June 2016	zip	300MB
Reprojected GEO	Reprojected GEO	7 June 2016	zip	279MB
Reprojected UTM35 SOUTH	Reprojected UTM 35 South	7 June 2016	zip	299MB
SANLC Hillshade 3D Data, 2013, GTI, 72 Classes	Land Cover 3D-Hillshade 2013-14	7 June 2016	zip	4.01GB

South African National Land Cover 1990, 35 Classes

Name of Data Set	Description	Release Date	File Format	Size
Metadata, 35Classes, 1990	Metadata Reports Stats Dates, 35 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	4.34MB
Original UTM35 North, 35 Classes, 1990	Original UTM 35 North, 35 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	249MB
Reprojected GEO, 35 Classes, 1990	Reprojected GEO, 35 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	231MB
Reprojected UTM35 South, 35 Classes, 1990	Reprojected UTM 35 South, 35 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	249MB

South African National Land Cover 1990, 72 Classes

NAME OF Data set	Description	Release Date	File Format	Size
Reprojected GEO84	Reprojected GEO84, 72 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	258MB
Original UTM35 SOUTH	Original UTM35 South, 72 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	278MB
Reprojected UTM35 SOUTH	Reprojected UTM35 South, 72 Classes, 1990	7 June 2016	zip	278MB
ERDAS UTM35 HILLSHADE	ERDAS UTM35 Hillshade 1990	7 June 2016	zip	4.07GB
Landcover Report 1990	1990 SANLC Data User Report and MetaData	7 June 2016	pdf	4.50MB

Geographic Areas Data

Name of Data Set	Description	Release Date	File Format	Size
Final EGI Expansion Corridors	Final EGI Expansion Corridors	21 July 2020	zip	187KB
REDZs Power Corridors	REDZs Strategic Transmission Corridors	20 April 2017	zip	712KB
Gas Corridors	Strategic Gas Pipeline Network	21 July 2020	zip	399KB
Phase 2 REDZs	Phase 2 REDZs	21 July 2020	zip	74.2KB
Phase 1 REDZs	Phase 1 REDZs	21 July 2020	zip	409KB
REDZs Development Zones	REDZ Unpublished Draft 2015. Renewable Energy Development Zones (REDZs)	11 June 2016	zip	771KB
Gauteng EMF Zone 1	Gauteng Province Env. Management Framework. Zone 1 - Shapefile	March 2022	zip	6.74MB
Gauteng EMF Zone 5	Gauteng Province Env. Management Framework. Zone 5 - Shapefile	March 2022	zip	1.39MB

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