The coverage is part of the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) / Associates in Rural Development (ARD) African series.
Zambia is associated with the South region in Africa.
The data are to be used in modeling, targeting and demonstration projects. The data are also used in natural resource management, inventory, change analysis, policy making, environmental awareness and land use planning.
Procedures_Used: The international boundary for this country was extracted from an ARC/INFO LIBRARY created from the ARC/INFO version of the Digital Chart of the World (DCW) using the ARC/INFO tool LIBRARIAN.
Revisions: During ARC/INFO coverage development modifications were made to the digital files to generate a database with a common scale, uniform level of resolution, consistent coding scheme, and comparable (standardized) measurement data.
The only other revision from the original data sets was the addition of certain attributes. There were no changes to any administrative boundaries.
Reviews_Applied_to_Data: Peer review, 03/96, FEWS/ARD Washington, D.C.
Digital line work and attribute data checked for discrepancies and approved for release to FEWS in-country and regional field representatives.
Related_Spatial_and_Tabular_Data_Sets: None
Other_References_Cited: Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Inc., 1993, "Digital Chart of the World (DCW)," PONET Layer. ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA. Scale - 1:1000000.
Notes: USAID - United States Agency for International Development. FEWS - Famine Early Warning System ARD - Associates in Rural Development EDC - EROS Data Center USGS - United States Geological Survey
The additional attributes were added by EDC in April of 1996.
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the EROS Data Center, no warranty expressed or implied is made by FEWS/ARD or USGS/EDC regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
The Geological Survey will warrant the delivery of this product in computer-readable format, and will offer appropriate adjustment of credit when the product is determined unreadable by correctly adjusted computer input peripherals, or when the physical medium is delivered in damaged condition. Requests for adjustment of credit must be made within 90 days from the date of this shipment from the ordering site.
This data set contains data that has copyright protection and is not for general (public) distribution.
To the best knowledge of USAID/FEWS and EDC the data compiled in this data set meets the codes and/or procedures established for completeness and consistency.
The absolute horizontal accuracy of the DCW for all features derived from Jet Navigation Charts (JNC) is 4270 meters (14006 feet) at 90% Circular Error.
The item (CNT-ABB) defines the unique country abbreviation, as defined by EDC. The item (REGION) defines the region in Africa that Zambia is associated with, as defined by FEWS/ARD. The item (FEWS-ABB) defines the unique country identifier, as defined by FEWS/ARD.CNT-ABB REGION FEWS-ABB
ZA SOUTH ZA
UNIX - http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/adds/c1/r3/za/doc/admn/zaadmn1.tar.gz