Planning and cadastre
National Land Commission Secretariat
NCRP Building Footprints Category: Open
The NCRP data consists of cadastral plots comprising boundary points, boundary lines, and parcel identifier numbers (PIN). The data also consists of existing surrounding utilities and natural features such as roads, footpaths, streams, rivers, drains, irrigation channels, power lines etc and structures (building footprints). The data is merged and operates under one Geodatabase for all 20 dzongkhags. There are a total of 8 datasets including a dataset for the state land layer.
National Land Commission Secretariat
Land Use Land Cover 2020 Category: Open
The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) 2020 map of Bhutan highlights major land cover types, with forests dominating at 69% (a slight decrease from 2016). Other significant categories include Snow and Glacier (4.83%), Shrubs (4.11%), and Alpine Scrubs (8.89%, up from 3.39% in 2016). Minor covers include agriculture (2.96%), water bodies (0.61%), and built-up areas (0.25%). The map has an overall accuracy of 87% (kappa 0.853).The Sentinel-2 imagery, acquired from ESA's Copernicus Open Access Hub, underwent several pre-processing steps. The image classification was carried out using random forest technique using the e-cognition software.