| contiguous (indigenous) forest |
| contiguous low forest & thicket |
| dense forest & woodland |
| open woodland |
| contiguous & dense plantation forest |
| open & sparse plantation forest |
| temporary unplanted (clear-felled) plantation forest |
| low shrubland (other) |
| low shrubland (fynbos) |
| low shrubland (succulent karoo) |
| low shrubland (nama karoo) |
| sparsely wooded grassland |
| natural grassland |
| natural rivers |
| natural estuaries & lagoons |
| natural ocean & coastal |
| natural lakes |
| natural pans (flooded @ observation times) |
| artificial dams (including canals) |
| artificial sewage ponds |
| artificial flooded mine pits |
| herbaceous wetlands (currently mapped) |
| herbaceous wetlands (previously mapped) |
| mangrove wetlands |
| natural rock surfaces |
| dry pans |
| eroded lands |
| sand dunes (terrestrial) |
| coastal sand & dunes |
| bare riverbed material |
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| other bare |
| cultivated commercial permanent orchards |
| cultivated commercial permanent vines |
| cultivated commercial sugarcane pivot irrigated |
| cultivated commercial permanent pineapples |
| cultivated commercial sugarcane non-pivot |
| cultivated emerging farmer sugarcane non-pivot |
| commercial annual crops pivot irrigated |
| commercial annual crops non-pivot irrigated |
| commercial annual crops rain-fed / dryland |
| subsistence / small-scale annual crops |
| fallow land & old fields (trees) |
| fallow land & old fields (bush) |
| fallow land & old fields (grass) |
| fallow land & old fields (bare) |
| fallow land & old fields (low shrub) |
| residential formal (tree) |
| residential formal (bush) |
| residential formal (low veg / grass) |
| residential formal (bare) |
| residential informal (tree) |
| residential informal (bush) |
| residential informal (low veg / grass) |
| residential informal (bare) |
| village scattered (bare & low veg/ grass combo) |
| village dense (bare & low veg / grass combo) |
| smallholdings (tree) |
| smallholdings (bush) |
| smallholdings (low veg / grass) |
| smallholdings (bare) |
| urban recreational fields (tree) |
| urban recreational fields (bush) |
| urban recreational fields (grass) |
| urban recreational fields (bare) |
| commercial |
| industrial |
| roads & rails (major linear) |
| mines: surface infrastructure |
| mines: extraction pits, quarries |
| mines: salt mines |
| mine: tailings and resource dumps |
| land-fills |
| fallow land & old fields (wetlands) |
