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<idAbs>The New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB) is a multi-temporal, thematic classification of New Zealand's land cover. It identifies 33 mainland land cover classes (35 classes once the offshore Chatham Islands are included). The classification was revised between versions 1, 2, and 3 but has been consistent thereafter, and always with backward compatibility maintained. Land cover features are described by a polygon boundary, a land cover code, and a land cover name at each nominal time step; summer 1996/97, summer 2001/02, summer 2008/09, summer 2012/13, and summer 2018/19. The data set is designed to complement in theme, scale and accuracy, New Zealand’s 1:50,000 topographic database (https://www.linz.govt.nz/land/maps/topographic-maps/topo50-maps). LCDB is suitable for use in national and regional environment monitoring, forest and shrubland inventory, biodiversity assessment, trend analysis and infrastructure planning.</idAbs>
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<keyword>Land Cover Databae</keyword>
<keyword>Mainland New Zealand</keyword>
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<idPurp>Land cover data LCDB V5.0 from LRIS (https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/104400-lcdb-v50-land-cover-database-version-50-mainland-new-zealand/)</idPurp>
<idCredit>Obtained from LRIS Open Data. Funding to compile LCDB version 5.0 was from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), Department of Conservation (DoC) and Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). The Ministry for the Environment, Environment Waikato and Land Information New Zealand, made significant contributions in the form of evidential data. MfE, DoC and MPI reviewed intermediate and final mapping before public release.</idCredit>
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