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New Licence Improves Access to Environmental Data

Date: 19 August 2009

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NEWS: There is new lease of life for two fundamental environmental databases. On 1 July 2009, the Ministry for the Environment made Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification available online, for free and with an unrestricted licence. read more

New Land Cover Database Version in Development

Date: 17 March 2009

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NZGO is supporting the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) in developing a third version of the New Zealand Land Cover Database (LCDB). This complements international efforts to represent land cover, such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) global land cover map, made available online late last year. read more