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2004 digital Land Use/Land Cover Maps of Arkansas
Project Area: Statewide
Project Period: 2004
Project Info:
New digital land use / land cover (LULC) maps have been created for the entire state of Arkansas. The new map series was created from satellite imagery and represents a detailed mapping of Arkansas’ landscape in the spring, summer, and fall of 2004.
Comments to Jason A. Tullis; jatullis@cast.uark.edu or Bruce Gorham; bruce@cast.uark.edu
Arkansas Land Use / Land Cover - 1999 (AR-LULC-1999)
Project Area: Statewide
Project Period: 1999
Project Info: 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
Soil Surveys Digitization and Mapping project
Project Area: Statewide
Project Period: 1990 - 2005
Project Info: The digitization of the Arkansas Soil Surveys started in the early 1990s with the support of the Arkansas Legislature. The year 2005 will mark the completion of the last survey in Arkansas in digital format. The soil digital datasets constitute the first step in the completion of the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO ) Initiative. Soil survey digitizing, methodology, and data certification represent the main steps of this process.
Comments to Cristina Scarlat; cscarla@uark.edu
Mapping Agricultural Landuse in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas (MAVA-LULC)
Project Area: Randolph, Clay, Lawrence, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett, White, Woodruff, Cross, Crittenden, St. Frances, Pulaski, Lonoke, Prairie, Monroe, Lee, Jefferson, Arkansas, Phillips, Lincoln, Desha, Drew, Chicot, and Ashley County
Project Period: 1992
Project Info: 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
The Arkansas GAP Analysis Project (AR-GAP)
Project Area: Statewide
Project Period: 1992
Project Info: 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
