| Land cover | Description |
1 | Bare-ground | Limited to no vegetation cover. This also includes sparsely located settlements, <15% shrub cover. |
2 | Grassland | Characterised by grass coverage or grass interspersed scanty shrubs. |
3 | Sparse shrubs | Areas predominantly covered by shrubs and trees of medium density, vegetation cover > 15 < 80 percent. |
4 | Dense shrubs | Characterised by high density shrubs and trees, vegetation cover near 100%. |