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Namibia - Kalaharia and recent Deserts dunes

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Overview
Dataset Title Namibia - Kalaharia and recent Deserts dunes ?
Abstract Alignment of dunes in Namibia. Obtained from the Atlas of Namibia. ?
Citation Mendelsohn J, Jarvis A, Roberts C and Robertson T. 2002. Atlas of Namibia: A portrait of the land and its people. David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa. ?
Topic Category environment ?
Data Quality
Lineage Statement Shapefile was created from a geocorrected scanned image of an illustration in a manuscript: The Kalahari Environment, 1991. Thomas D.S.G. and Shaw P.A. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Shapefile was created for illustrative purposes. ?
Dataset Description
Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation EIS - Environmental Information Service Namibia ?
Dataset Date Type publication ?
Dataset Reference Date 2011-07-18 ?
Dataset Language English ?
Dataset Character Set utf8 ?
Dataset Online Name 2.13 THE KALAHARI AND RECENT DESERTS - DUNES ?
Dataset Online Linkage http://www.the-eis.com/track.php?id=15&action=download_file&url=data/Atlas_Data/Fig%202.13%20The%20kalahari%20and%20recent%20deserts.zip ?
Dataset Format Shape ?
Dataset Scope dataset ?
Dataset Status completed ?
Geographic Location
Western-most Longitude 13.8714425236 ?
Eastern-most Longitude 23.4331100663 ?
Southern-most Latitude -28.1054256057 ?
Northern-most Latitude -17.6618395698 ?
Geographic Description Namibia ?
Spatial Resolution
Spatial Representation Type vector ?
Equivalent Scale -1 ?
Coordinate System
EPSG WGS 84 / UTM zone 34S ?
Additional Extent Information
Vertical Datum WGS84 ?
Unit of Measure m ?
Metadata
Metadata Contact Person Butchart-Kuhlmann, Daniel ?
Metadata Language English ?
Metadata Character Set utf8 ?
Metadata Standard Name ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS ?
Metadata Date Stamp 2011-07-18 ?
Identifier
Internal identifier sdp_geodata_163 (Link)