The map of developmental degree of desertification in Daqinggou, Keerqin (Horqin) Steppe, Inner Mongolia, China（1981）- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

The data is digitized from a drawing, the map of developmental degree of desertification in Daqinggou, Keerqin (HORQIN) Steppe (1981). The specific information of this map is as follows:

* Chief Editor: Zhu Zhenda

* Editor: Feng Yusun

* Drawer: Feng Yusun, Yao Fafen, Wang Jianhua, Zhao Yanhua, Li Weimin

* Mapping unit: Prepared by Desert Research Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences

* Publisher: No

* Scale: 1: 50000

* Publication time: No

* Legend: Gully Dense Forest, Sparse Woods, Brush, Artificial Woodland, Nursery and Vegetable Garden, Grass Land, Dry Farmland (Dry Farmland), Rejected Farmland, Marsh Land, Shifting Snad-Dunes, Semi-Shifting Sand-Dunes, Semi-Fixed Sand-Dunes ), Fixed Sand-Dunes, Water Area, Rice, Residential, Highway

1. File format and naming

The data is stored in ESRI Shapefile format, including the following layers:

Desertification map of Daqinggou area in Horqin steppe, rivers, swamps, roads, lakes, residential areas

2. Data desertification attribute fields:

Type of desertification (Shape), Grassland (Grassland), Woodland (Woodland), Woodland Density (W_density), Farmland (Farmland)

3. Projection information:

Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453292519943295)

Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000000000000000)

Datum: D_Beijing_1954

Spheroid: Krasovsky_1940

Semimajor Axis: 6378245.000000000000000000

Semiminor Axis: 6356863.018773047300000000

Inverse Flattening: 298.300000000000010000

File naming and required software

The data is stored in vector SHP format and can be opened and read by remote sensing software such as ArcGIS and QGIS

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Wang, J., Zhu, Z., Yao, F., Feng, Y. (2010). The map of developmental degree of desertification in Daqinggou, Keerqin (Horqin) Steppe, Inner Mongolia, China（1981）. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Disas.tpdc.270662. CSTR: 18406.11.Disas.tpdc.270662. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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