We have taken the Uso del Suelo y Vegetacion land cover classification products for Mexico (courtesy of Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, or INEGI) for years 1985, 1993, 2002, 2007, and 2011 (INEGI, 2015); and harmonized their classes with the classes of the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) National Land Cover Database (NLCD) (Homer et al., 2015). Details of processing, along with the processing scripts, are archived in GitHub in the NLCD_INEGI project (Bohn, 2019).

This project contains the following g-zipped tar files:

• SERIE_I.tgz - land cover from 1985
• SERIE_II.tgz - land cover from 1993
• SERIE_III.tgz - land cover from 2002
• SERIE_IV.tgz - land cover from 2007
• SERIE_V.tgz - land cover from 2011

On LINUX, the contents of these files can be extracted via "tar":

tar -xvzf SERIE_I.tgz >& log.tar.txt

On Windows, applications such as "7-zip" can extract the contents.

Each of these .tgz files contain a folder with the same name but without the ".tgz". Within each of these folders are the following sub-folders:

• For SERIE_I to SERIE_IV:
  • metatiles/ - original land cover shapefiles, with Mexico divided into "metatiles" along UTM zones, as documented in Processing_of_INEGI_USOSV_dataset.docx
  • geo/ - shapefiles from "metatiles", reprojected into geographic
  • entire/ - shapefiles from "geo" merged into a single file for the entire country
• For SERIE_V:
  • entire/ - original land cover shapefile in Lambert Conical projection, covering all of Mexico
  • geo/ - shapefile from "entire" reprojected into geographic
• SERIE_I to SERIE_V:
  • cve_union/ - shapefiles covering all of Mexico, in geographic projection, with land cover reclassified to NLCD 2011 legend
  • rasters/ - files from "cve_union", rasterized at 0.000350884 degree resolution
  • ascii/ - raster files from "rasters", exported to ascii ESRI grid file format

Output files (in the "ascii" folders) are ESRI ascii raster grid files, in geographic projection, with cellsize = 0.000350884 degrees.

This data was downloaded by Tara Atwood, Intern, Geospatial Centroid, on 3/19/2021 from Berkeley Library GeoData . This data is part of an effort to provide base-level spatial data for the Todos Santos region via ArcGIS Hub for CSU researchers and others doing work in this area. Two INEGI shapefiles were merged to make this layer. The original name for the layers were nyu_2451_36786 and denue_inegi_03_.shp. The link to the original source is here: https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog/nyu-2451-36786

The dataset represents the country of Mexico. Downloaded from https://data.humdata.org/dataset/mexican-administrative-level-0-country-1-estado-and-2-municipio-boundary-polygonsSourceInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)ContributorOCHA ROLACDate of DatasetJune 23, 2020UpdatedJune 24, 2020Expected Update FrequencyEvery yearLocationMexicoVisibilityPublicLicenseOther :humanitarian use onlyMethodologyDownload from Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) siteCaveats / CommentsThe administrative level 0 and 1 KMZ files were created from generalized versions of the shapefiles because of the complexity of the boundary. The original shapefiles are in the dataset.