Table 1.

Land cover class descriptions

Land cover class	Description
Crops, agricultural and open savannah	Agricultural land or grassland with occasional trees/bushes (not seasonally flooding)
Woodland and dense savannah	Grassland with dense trees/bushes (not seasonally flooding) and patches of woodland
Built up and bare ground	Towns or villages with high building density or bare murrum or mud
Open water	Areas of open water
Lake fringe swamps	Lake edges with a high density of papyrus, water hyacinth and water lilies
Seasonally flooded grassland	Savannah which floods during the wet season, with occasional trees/bushes