A. HOW TO READ THE SURVEY PAGE

Each survey page is organized into the following three parts: 1. Survey Objectives: 2. Survey Content and Methods: 3. Survey Results.
Each part begins with the survey name and year, as below:

Vegetation Naturalness Survey / Vegetation Survey
Survey Sequence and Effective Years (All years are fiscal years)	data	Result list (Japanese only except )
1st survey 1973		Actual Vegetation Map (1:200,000) (every all pref.) Vegetation Naturalness Map (1:200,000) (every all pref.) National State of Nature Survey Report
2nd survey 1979		Outline of the National Survey on the Natural Environment (Vegetation, Lakes and Rivers) Actual Vegetation Map (1:50,000) Report of Vegetation Survey -gathered by each prefectures (45vols)- Report of Vegetation Survey Manual of Legends for Actual Vegetation map (1:50,000)
3rd survey 1983-1986		Actual Vegetation Map (1:50,000) Report of Vegetation Survey -gathered by each prefectures (44vols)- Report of Vegetation Survey Actual Vegetation Map (1:3,000,000)
4th survey 1989-1992		Report of Vegetation Survey Actual Vegetation Map (1:2,500,000) Vegetation Naturalness Map (1:2,500,000) Actual Vegetation Changes Map (1:50,000) Actual Vegetation Map using Vegetation raster data (about 1km x 1km) Vegetation Naturalness Map (every all pref.) List of Legend for Actual Vegetation Map Vegetation raster data (about 1km x 1km)
5th survey 1995-1999		Actual Vegetation Changes Map (1:50,000) Actual Vegetation Map (1:2,500,000) Vegetation Naturalness Map (1:2,500,000) Report of Vegetation Survey Manual of Legends for Actual Vegetation map (1:50,000) Report of Vegetation survey on satellite image data analysis Vegetation raster data (about 1km x 1km)

Survey Name

Shows the survey name. Survey names change but contents are organized virtually the same way in each case.

Survey Sequence and Effective Years (All years are fiscal years)

Shows survey sequence and years. The numbers indicate the sequence from the 1st to the 5th survey. The years show the duration of each survey.