FINAL PRODUCT:
     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.
 
FOCUS:
     Agricultural land use.
 
STUDY AREA:
     The entire State of Arkansas
 
PRINCIPAL DATA SOURCE:
     1998 and 1999 multi-temporal Landsat 5 & 7 Thematic
     Mapper (TM) satellite imagery.
 
BEGUN:
     August 1999
 
COMPLETION:
     September 2001
 
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE EMPLOYED:
     GeoMatica (by PCI Corp), ArcView (by ESRI, Inc), and
     Pathfinder Office (by Trimble Corp).
 
FUNDING ORGANIZATION:
     Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
 
PRINCIPAL CONTACT:
     Bruce Gorham, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME:
     Crops:
          Soybeans
          Rice
          Cotton
          Wheat / Oats
          Corn / Sorghum
          Other Cropland
          Bare Soil / Seedbed
     Pasture:
          Cool Season
          Warm Season
     Forest:
          Deciduous
          Coniferous
          Mixed
          Unclassified
     Water:
          Perennial
          Flooded
     Urban:
          Low Intensity
          Medium Intensity
          High Intensity
          Other (Parks, Cemeteries, etc.)
     Other:
          Barren (Sand, Rock, Mining Operations, etc.)
          Herbaceous