Planning and cadastre
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.
Keywords: [#lulc#agriculture#built up#forest#grassland#barren land#glacier#snow#water#landslide#vegetation#meadow]
National Soil Services Centre
LULC 2010 Category: Common
This dataset is the Land Cover Map of Bhutan (2010). It represents the occurrence and distribution of different types of Land Use and Land Cover in Bhutan. The LULC classes listed here shows Forest cover of 70.46% (Excluding shrubs) with Broadleaf (62.43%), Mixed Coniferous (22.69%), Fir (6.77%), Blue Pine (2.96%), Chir Pine (3.98%) and 1.16% of Broadleaf with conifer. Likewise, Shrubs cover 10.81%, agriculture land and meadows cover 2.93% and 4.10% respectively. The snow cover constitutes 7.44%, bare areas with 3.20%. Marshy areas, non-built areas, built up areas, water bodies and degraded areas with less than 1% each.The average overall map accuracy at the national level is 97.91% with 95.67% minimum and 100.15% maximum at 95% Confidence Level.
Keywords: [#Planning]