Forest Cover Types, United States, 2002
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This raster layer portrays general forest cover types for the United States in GeoTIFF format. Data were derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) composite images recorded during the 1991 growing season, with the exception of Puerto Rico, for which Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data were used. A total of 25 classes of forest cover types were interpreted from the AVHRR and TM imagery, aided by field observations and refined with ancillary data from digital elevation models. The data available through the National Atlas of the United States are in GeoTIFF format. This is a revised version of the May 2002 map layer, with a corrected shoreline for Greenland. This layer is part of the 1997-2014 edition of the National Atlas of the United States.
- Purpose
- The forest cover types map layer was developed to portray broad distribution patterns of forest cover in the United States. The data should be displayed at scales appropriate for 1:7,500,000-scale data.
Description
Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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Form | Raster Dataset |
Publisher | National Atlas of the United States |
Publication date | 2002 |
Edition | 3 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Map data | Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 180°--E 180°/N 86°10ʹ--N 3°2ʹ12ʺW 180°--E 179°59ʹ22ʺ/N 86°9ʹ44ʺ--N 3°2ʹ33ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | United States. Forest Service | |
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Creator | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
Subjects
Subject | Forests and forestry |
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Subject | Land cover |
Subject | Vegetation mapping |
Subject | United States |
Subject | Alaska |
Subject | Alabama |
Subject | Arizona |
Subject | Arkansas |
Subject | Colorado |
Subject | Connecticut |
Subject | Delaware |
Subject | Florida |
Subject | Georgia |
Subject | Hawaii |
Subject | Idaho |
Subject | Illinois |
Subject | Indiana |
Subject | Iowa |
Subject | Kansas |
Subject | Kentucky |
Subject | Louisiana |
Subject | Maine |
Subject | Maryland |
Subject | Massachusetts |
Subject | Michigan |
Subject | Minnesota |
Subject | Mississippi |
Subject | Missouri |
Subject | Montana |
Subject | Nebraska |
Subject | Nevada |
Subject | New Hampshire |
Subject | New Jersey |
Subject | New Mexico |
Subject | New York (State) |
Subject | North Carolina |
Subject | North Dakota |
Subject | Ohio |
Subject | Oklahoma |
Subject | Oregon |
Subject | Pennsylvania |
Subject | Rhode Island |
Subject | South Carolina |
Subject | South Dakota |
Subject | Tennessee |
Subject | Texas |
Subject | Utah |
Subject | Vermont |
Subject | Virginia |
Subject | Washington (D.C.) |
Subject | Washington (State) |
Subject | West Virginia |
Subject | Wisconsin |
Subject | Wyoming |
Subject | Puerto Rico |
Subject | 2002 |
Subject | Imagery and Base Maps |
Genre | Geospatial data |
Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
Use limitation | None. Acknowledgment of the National Atlas of the United States, the USDA Forest Service, and (or) the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated in products derived from these data. |
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WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
Scanned map |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ng927vq0549 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Forest Service. (2002). Forest Cover Types, United States, 2002. National Atlas of the United States. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ng927vq0549.
Collection
National atlas of the United States of America, 1997-2014
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