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Character definitions of data values 

CNTRY     CNTRY-C (country name)

1         Bangladesh
2         Burma
3         India
4         Cambodia
5         Laos
6         Malaysia (Peninsular)
7         Nepal
8         Pakistan*
9         Sri Lanka
10        Thailand
11        Vietnam
12        Malaysia (Insular)
13        Indonesia
14        Philippines
15        Papua New Guinea*
16        Brunei
*Although there are no data included in this database for Pakistan and Papua New Guinea, some border cells may be classified as such, as a result of the rasterization process (see Sect. 3, Data Limitations and Restrictions). 

EFZ       EFZ-C (ecofloristic zone)

2         Lowland moist
3         Lowland seasonal
4         Lowland dry
6         Montane moist
7         Montane seasonal
9         Non-forest


VEG       VEG-C (vegetation type)

1         Closed forest
2         Secondary forest
3         Shifting cultivation
4         Open forest
5         Forest mosaic
6         Non-forest (Continental)
11        Lowland rain forest
12        Montane rain forest
13        Lowland monsoon forest
14        Montane monsoon forest
15        Mangroves
16        Inland swamp forest
17        Non-forest (Insular)
18        Waterbodies
19        Degraded rain forest
20        Degraded monsoon forest


POP       POP-C (population density in people per square kilometer)

1         1 to 25
2         26 to 50
3         51 to 75
4         76 to 100
5         101 to 150
6         151 to 200
7         201 to 300
8         301 to 400
9         401 to 500
10        501 to 750
11        751 to 1000
12        1000 to 1500
13        1500 to 2000
14        2001 to 25000


PRECIP    PRECIP-C (mean annual precipitation in millimeters per year)

1         1 to 200
2         201 to 400
3         401 to 600
4         601 to 800
5         801 to 1000
6         1001 to 1200
7         1201 to 1600
8         1601 to 2000
9         2001 to 2500
10        2501 to 3000
11        3001 to 4000
12        4001 to 5000
13        5001 to 11000


ELEV      ELEV-C (elevation in meters)

1         0 to 250
2         251 to 500
3         501 to 1000
4         1001 to 1500
5         1501 to 2000
6         2001 to 2500
7         2501 to 3000
8         3001 to 4000
9         4001 to 5000
10        5001 to 10000


SLOPE     SLOPE-C (slope)

1         Level
2         Undulating
3         Rolling
4         Hilly
5         Mountainous
6         Unknown


SOILT     SOILT-C (soil texture)

1         Coarse
2         Medium coarse
3         Medium
4         Medium fine
5         Fine
6         Unknown


FOREST    FOREST-C (forest or non-forest designation)

1         Forest
2         Non-forest


CLIMI     CLIMI-C (Weck's Climatic Index)

1         1 to 25
2         26 to 50
3         51 to 75
4         76 to 100
5         101 to 125
6         126 to 150
7         151 to 175
8         176 to 200
9         201 to 250
10        251 to 300
11        301 to 350
12        351 to 400
13        401 to 450
14        451 to 500
15        501 to 600
16        501 to 700
17        701 to 800
18        801 to 900
19        901 to 1000
20        1001 to 1700