Tanintharyi Region Land Cover Map Based on 2016 Satellite Imagery

Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) provides a revised land cover map for Myanmar's Tanintharyi Region. The dataset was generated from March 2016 Landsat 8 OLI imagery and manually edited to correct classifications and fill cloud gaps. It maps four ecological forest types and other land uses like settlements and plantations.

Use Cases

• Classify and monitor distinct forest types (Mangrove, Mixed Deciduous, Lowland Evergreen, Upland Evergreen) based on multi-spectral satellite imagery.
• Analyze land use patterns for human settlement areas and agricultural land (rice paddyfields, agroforestry plantations).
• Validate and improve automated land cover classification models based on the manually corrected areas mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Based on a specific, cited methodology from a peer-reviewed Remote Sensing journal manuscript.
• Manually edited to fix mis-classifications and fill cloud holes, which likely improves accuracy.
• Uses a defined spatial reference system (WGS84 UTM47N).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single snapshot in March 2016; temporal coverage is limited.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)

Collection Method

Land cover analysis based on Landsat 8 OLI imagery, with manual corrections.

Time Range

March 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 20:03:50.705859; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar