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High-resolution land cover of Kansas (2015)

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posted on 2024-09-13, 16:22 authored by Darci A. Paull, Jakob W. Whitson, Abbey L. Marcotte, Greg C. Liknes, Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Todd A. Kellerman
This data publication contains 2015 high-resolution land cover data for each of the 105 counties within Kansas. These data are a digital representation of land cover derived from 1-meter aerial imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). There is a separate file for each county. Data are intended for use in rural areas and therefore do not include land cover in cities and towns. Land cover classes (tree cover, other land cover, water, or city/town) were mapped using an object-based image analysis approach and supervised classification.
These data are designed for conducting geospatial analyses and for producing cartographic products. In particular, these data are intended to depict the location of tree cover in the county. The mapping procedures were developed specifically for agricultural landscapes that are dominated by annual crops, rangeland, and pasture and where tree cover is often found in narrow configurations, such as windbreaks and riparian corridors. Because much of the tree cover in agricultural areas of the United States occurs in windbreaks and narrow riparian corridors, many geospatial datasets derived from coarser-resolution satellite data (such as Landsat), do not capture these landscape features. This dataset and others in this series are intended to address this particular data gap.
This metadata file contains documentation for the entire set of land cover county files. Individual metadata documents containing detailed information specific (e.g. spatial) to each county are included with the data files. Original metadata date is 06/01/2017. On 09/06/2017 a few data file names were updated. On 11/27/2017 the Ford County data files were corrected to fill in the missing northeast corner of this county.

Funding

USDA-FS

History

Data contact name

Darci Paull

Data contact email

dpaull@ksu.edu

Publisher

Forest Service Research Data Archive

Use limitations

These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and Kansas State University – Kansas Forest Service and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation: Paull, Darci A.; Whitson, Jakob W.; Marcotte, Abbey L.; Liknes, Greg C.; Meneguzzo, Dacia M.; Kellerman, Todd A. 2017. High-resolution land cover of Kansas (2015). Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 27 November 2017. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0025 *Appropriate use includes fine-scale assessment of tree cover, total extent of tree cover, county-level summaries of tree cover categories, and construction of cartographic products.

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

Kansas

ISO Topic Category

  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

Forestry, Wildland Management

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:96 - Forest Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:059 - Management Activities

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Identifier

RDS-2017-0025