Land Cover Honduras 2018 

Parameter 

Land Cover  Honduras

38 classes


 

 


Represented classes

No data 

Moist broadleaved forest

Deciduous broadleaved forest

Broadleaf moist flood-prone forest

Tique Palm forest 

Mangroove high forest 

Mangroove low forest 

Dense coniferous forest 

Sparse coniferous forest

Coniferous forest plagued

Coffee plantations 

Orchards

Wet secondary vegetation

Deciduous secondary vegetation

Savannah

Disperse trees

African palm 

Other palm species 

Musaceae

Sugar cane 

Pineapple

Rice plantation 

Technified agriculture 

Grasslands/croplands 

Continuous urban area

Discontinous urban area 

Industrial and commercial areas 

Beach sand

Continental bare soil

Continental humid area

Coastal humid area

Natural freshwater lakes and lagoons

Artificial water bodies 

Rivers and other freshwater surfaces

Sea and oceans 

Salty lakes and lagoons  

Shrimp farms/ salt flats 

Description 

The Land Cover and Land Use Map of Honduras was constructed using the Wall to Wall methodology. The imagery used for this product comes from the Sentinel2 sensor and was processed on the GEE platform.

Instituto de Conservación Forestal (ICF) 

Source data

iInstituto de Conservación Forestal 

Land Cover Map 


Description 

The Land Cover and Land Use Map of Honduras was constructed using the Wall to Wall methodology. The imagery used for this product comes from the Sentinel2 sensor and was processed on the GEE platform.

Spatial resolution 

National coverage: Honduras 

10m spatial resolution

Temporal resolution

Period of observation: 

2018