Data Standards & Methodologies

Geospatial and metadata standards, reference systems and the methods for mapping, NFI and MRV.

Metadata Standards (ISO 19115)

Open Metadata Standards (ISO 19115)

NFMS-FIP metadata follows ISO 19115 (Geographic information: Metadata, ISO 19115-1:2014), in UTF-8, through the NFMS-FIP metadata template.

NFMS-FIP metadata template: 9 sections, 63 fields

9SectionsBased on ISO 19115

63FieldsTo accompany every submitted dataset

36Already in the catalogue27 still to be added

Data type / description
Title / name
Abstract
Purpose / objective
Responsible organisation, collaborators, partners
Data owner
Data custodian
Geographic extent / location (descriptive)
Data type (vector, raster, tabular, collection)
Forest type (montane, coastal, western rain, mangrove, dryland, plantation)
Temporal coverage / period
Time stamp of collection and publication
Status (ongoing, completed)
Dataset identifier (UUID / unique ID)
Metadata language
Resource language
Keywords (theme, place, project, forest type)
ISO topic category

already captured by the data catalogue · to be added. Datasets are submitted with the completed template; the Secretariat can supply it as a Word form.

Source: NFMS-FIP Metadata Template (final draft), Kenya Forest Service (2026).