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released, allowing their right use and re-use for 
humanitarian aims. 
• Transportation, with particular attention to sea and airlift 
capacity and availability, transport procedures and 
schedules, infrastructure assessments and updates, customs 
issues and logistics bottlenecks affecting the humanitarian 
community. Transportation dataset data collection is a 
direct responsibility of UNJLC and may derive from very 
different sources, such as pre-existing geodatasets, 
digitalization of paper sources, field missions with GPS, 
reports, interviews, etc. Table 10 reports a summary of data 
sources for the African transportation dataset. 
BASE DATA - data sources 
BOUNDARIES 
VMAPO - Vector Map Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
SALB - Second Administrative Level Boundaries Data source: UNGIWG 
Geographic area: near global Scale: 1:1000000 
POPULATION 
LandScan - LandScan Global Population Data source: ORNL 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 1 km 
INDUSTRY 
VMAPO - Vector Map Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
UTILITIES 
VMAPO - Vector Map Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
ELEVATION 
VMAPO - Vector Map Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
DTM from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Data source: NASA - JPL 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 90 m 
HYDROGRAPHY 
VMAPO - Vector Man Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
STRM Water Body Data (SWBD) Data source: NASA - JPL 
Geographic area: near global 
Drainage Basins Level 1.2, 3 Data source: USGS - EROS 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:5000000 
PHYSIOGRAPHY - VEGETATION 
VMAPO - Vector Map Level 0 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1500000-1:750000 
Orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper Mosaics Data source: Geo Community 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 30m 
GLC2000- Global Landcover Classification year 2000 Data source: JRC- IES 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 1 km 
MOD1S Land Imagery Data source: NASA EOS 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 250 m, 500 m, 1 km 
MOD1S NDVI Data Data source: NASA EOS 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 250 m, 500 m, 1 km 
MOD1S Land Cover Data Data source: NASA EOS 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 1 km, 5 km 
Landsat 7 ETM+ Ortho GeoCover Imagery Data source: GLFC 
Geographic area: world Spatial resolution: 30m 
NAMES 
Geonames - Geographic names Data source: NGA 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:5000000-1:10000 
OTHER 
DCW - Digital Chart of the World 
Data source: ESRI for USDMA Data geometry: raster 
Geographic area: world Scale: 1:1000000 
VMAP1 - Vector Map Level 1 Data source: NIMA 
Geographic area: local Scale: 1:250000 
Datasets 
BASE DATA 
Classes Description 
BNDCoastline 
Coastlines (lines) 
Boundaries 
BNDOceanSea 
Oceans and Seas (areas) 
BNDPolA 
Political Boundaries (areas) 
BNDPolL 
Political Boundaries (outlinest 
ELVCntline 
Contour lines on land (lines) 
Elevation 
ELVDepthline 
Depth lines (lines) 
ELVDtm 
Digital Terrain Model (raster) 
ELVElevPoint 
Elevation points (points) 
HYDBasin 
Drainage basins (areas) 
HYDCanal 
Inland water canals (lines) 
HYDInWatcrA 
Inland water bodies (areas) 
Hydrography 
HYDInWaterL 
Inland water paths (lines) 
H YDMisc W aterL 
Miscellaneous water elements (lines) 
HYDMiscWaterP 
Miscellaneous water elements (points) 
HYDSwbd 
SRTM Water Body Areas /areas) 
PHYGroundCover 
Ground cover broad classes (areas) 
PHYLandCover 
Land cover (1km resolution) (areas) 
Physiography 
PHYLandsatMos 
Orthorectified Landsat TM Mosaics (2000) 
PHYModisLC 
Modis Land Cover data (raster) 
PHYModisLI 
Modis Land Imagery (raster) 
PHYModisNDVI 
Modis NDVI data (raster) 
POPAnthrFeatP 
Anthropic features (areas) 
Population 
POPBuiltUpA 
Built-Up areas (areas) 
POPPopDensity 
Population density (raster) 
Industry 
INDIndA 
Industries (extraction/fish) (areas) 
INDIndP 
Industries (extraction/fish) (areas) 
Utilities 
l JTITransmLines 
Transmission lines (power, pipelines, etc.) 
UTITransmNodes 
Transmission nodes (plants, pumping, etc.) 
NMSAdmReg 
Names of administrative region features 
NMSHydType 
Names of hydrographic type features 
NMSHypType 
Names of hypsographic type features 
NMSLocType 
Names of locality or area type features 
Names 
NMSPopPlace 
Names of populated place features 
NMSSptType 
Names of spot type features 
NMSStrType 
Names of street, highway, road or railroad 
type features 
NMSUndType 
Names of undersea type features 
NMSVegTyp 
Names of vegetation type features 
Table 9 - Base map feature classes 
TRANSPORTATION 
Source ty pe 
% on total 
Field Mission with GPS 
36.2 
Field Mission no GPS 
0.5 
Report 
4.2 
Interview 
1.9 
Digitized 
9.4 
Pre-existing geodataset 
38.5 
Unspecified 
9.4 
Table 10 - Data sources for Africa Transportation dataset 
4. INTEROPERABLE SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS 
Web services and applications will allow an interoperable level 
of access and management of the database. Services are 
intended as user interface elements that accept input from the 
user selection, process it, and optionally put the result back in 
the clipboard. Table 11 contains a list of services requested by 
the users or proposed in the framework of ITHACA 
collaboration with WFP. 
Table 8 - Base map data sources