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Arkansas Land Use / Land Cover - 1999 (AR-LULC-1999)Satellite Imagery - Based Land Use / Land Cover Determination of the State of Arkansas. Multi-seasonal (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) digital land use / land cover map products for each of the 75 counties of Arkansas and State as a whole.
Comments to Bruce Gorham; bruce@cast.uark.edu
Mapping Agricultural Landuse in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas (MAVA-LULC)
Nearly all of Arkansas' agricultural crop production occurs in the eastern contiguous counties of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) commonly known as the "Delta." This area also displays many of the problems associated with large-scale agricultural production. In 1996 the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission (ASWCC) provided funding to the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas to develop digital land-use/land-cover maps focusing on agricultural land-use for the 27 Arkansas counties within MAV. Combined with existing spatial data, the information produced from this project will serve as a basis for the formulation of water, soil, and farm management policies and practices.
Copyright 1999; Comments to Bruce Gorham; bruce@cast.uark.edu
Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP)
(CAST) is involved in locating potential sources of contamination (PSOC) for public water intakes in the state of Arkansas (including regions in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley). CAST will work in conjunction with the Department of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, and United States Geological Survey (USGS) to meet the requirements of a national mandate. The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments require states to implement SWAP programs to assess areas providing drinking water to the public. SWAP programs will focus on potential threats to both groundwater and surface water in order to implement protection efforts.
Comments to Brian Culpepper; brian@cast.uark.edu
The Arkansas GAP Analysis Project (AR-GAP)
The Arkansas Gap Analysis project (AR-GAP) was initiated as a cooperative effort between the Biological Resource Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, and state, federal, and private natural resources groups in Arkansas. The major objectives of the project were to (1) produce GIS-databases describing the actual land cover type, predicted distributions of terrestrial vertebrates, land ownership, and land management status at a scale of 1:100,000, (2) identify land cover types and terrestrial vertebrate species that currently are not represented or are underrepresented in areas managed for long-term maintenance of biodiversity, i.e., "gaps", and (3) facilitate cooperative development and use of information so that institutions, agencies, and private land owners may be more effective stewards of Arkansas' natural resources. The AR-GAP project is a preliminary step toward the more detailed efforts and studies needed for long-term planning for biodiversity conservation in Arkansas.
Comments to Bruce Gorham; bruce@cast.uark.edu
