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Missouri Land Cover Mapping Project

Objective

Maintain a continuously updated digital vegetation map of the state based on the most current Landsat series satellite imagery.

Rationale

Land cover/use is not a static phenomenon.  Urbanization, population growth, shifting agricultural trends, lifestyle preferences, forestry and declining forest health are all contributing to increasing rates of land cover/use fragmentation and change. There is no established responsibility within a state or federal agency to maintain a current spatial land cover/use coverage.

Status

State completed with 1992 data.  Updates underway with 2000, 2001 and 2002 data for southern third of state, partially funded by United States Forest Service and Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Classification Categories

  • Impervious surface

  • High intensity urban

  • Low intensity urban

  • Barren or sparsely vegetated

  • Cropland

  • Grassland

  • Deciduous forest

  • Evergreen forest

  • Mixed forest

  • Deciduous woody herbaceous

  • Evergreen woody herbaceous

  • Mixed woody herbaceous

  • Woody dominated wetland

  • Herbaceous dominated wetland

  • Open water

For additional information on the Missouri Land Cover Mapping Project go to Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP).


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