WISCLAND Land Cover, Wisconsin 1998 (Grid)

Description:

Resource provided by UW-Madison Robinson Map Library. This Grid-format data set, known as WISCLAND Land Cover, is a raster representation of land cover of Wisconsin derived from Landsat satellite imagery. The source data were acquired from the nationwide MRLC (Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium) acquisition of dual-date Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data primarily from 1992. The image processing technique followed was published in the UMGAP Image Processing Protocol (1998).The original pixel size of the source TM data is 30 meters, however the classified WISCLAND Land Cover data (excluding URBAN) are generalized or 'smoothed' to an area no smaller than four contiguous pixels (equivalent to approximately one acre). The result of this smoothing is that any feature five acres or larger may be resolved in the data (i.e., Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of five acres). The Land Cover data are usable at nominal scales of 1:40,000 to 1:500,000 for a wide variety of resource management and planning applications. The classification scheme was designed to be compatible with existing classification schemes such as UNESCO's and Anderson's.

Resource Link:

http://data-wi-dnr.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=wiscland

Identifier:

997852D2-0972-4718-913C-E49A90C438DD

Language:

English

Creator:

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Publisher:

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Provider:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Imagery and Base Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1998

Date Issued:

Spatial Coverage:

Wisconsin

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

ArcGRID