Tanintharyi Region Land Cover Map Based on March 2016 Landsat Imagery

Tanintharyi Region in Myanmar is the subject of this land cover dataset. It maps four ecological forest types and other land uses based on Landsat 8 OLI imagery from March 2016. The dataset was produced by the Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) and is the original version from a 2016 study.

Use Cases

• Classifying mangrove forest extent based on the mapped forest types.
• Analyzing the distribution of upland evergreen forests relative to other land covers.
• Assessing land use patterns, including human settlements and rice paddyfields, from the included categories.

Strengths

• Based on Landsat 8 OLI satellite imagery from a specific month (March 2016).
• Maps four distinct ecological forest types: Mangrove, Mixed Deciduous, Lowland Evergreen, and Upland Evergreen.
• Includes additional land use categories such as human settlements and agroforestry plantations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single month in 2016; temporal coverage is limited.

Provenance

Source

Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)

Collection Method

Land cover analysis based on Landsat 8 OLI imagery, methodology outlined in a 2016 manuscript.

Time Range

March 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 20:03:51.683279; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar