Data on strategically located land and spatially integrated urban human settlements in South Africa
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Data on strategically located land and spatially integrated urban human settlements in South Africa
In developing countries like South Africa processed geographic information systems (GIS) data on land suitability, is often not available for land use management. Data in this article is based on a published article "The strategically located land index support system for humans settlements land reform in South Africa" (Musakwa et al., 2017) [1]. This article utilities data from Musakwa et al. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Data in Brief
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2352-3409
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.044