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Islands, Lake Victoria, Vector Polyline, ~2015

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Islands, Lake Victoria, Vector Polyline, ~2015
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/727XKD
 
Creator Hamilton, Stuart
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Islands, Lake Victoria, Vector Polyline, ~2015




Reference Information and Units:



Projected Coordinate System: Africa Lambert Conformal Conic


ESRI:102024 (https://epsg.io/102024)


GCS: GCS_WGS_1984






File Naming Convention:


LV_Islands_Line.shp





Data Origin:


Created from using Shoreline data that was created from manual digitization from open-source imagery





Data Development:


This data was created by extracting all islands from the shoreline poly shapefile by using a combination or Erase, Explode, and delete to leave only internal LV Islands. Next the area of each island was calculated. These are the island polygons. Finally the polygons were converted to lines to form the island lines
 
Subject Earth and Environmental Sciences
 
Date 2016-12-08
 
Contributor Krach, Noah