Mapping Agricultural Landuse in the 
Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas

Report on the Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas 
Landuse/Landcover (MAVA-LULC) Project

Copyright 1999; Comments to Bruce Gorham; bruce@cast.uark.edu


General Project Information

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.


THE ASWCC-LULC TEAM

Project Manager:
Bruce Gorham

Team Members:
Stephan Pollard (Image Processing Specialist, Co-Author Project Report)
Vincent Guillet (Image Processing/GIS Technician)
Brandon Bottomley (GIS Technician)
Noah Minard (GIS Technician)

Systems Administrator: James (The Answerman) Sullins

 

HARDWARE / SOFTWARE

SUN OS (SPARC Ultra Enterprise 5000 and SPARC5 workstations)

WINDOWS NT (Intergraph TD-300)

WINDOWS 95 (EPS 160 Laptop)

Remote Sensing/Image Processing Software:
PCI Geomatics (XPACE, GCPWorks, Imageworks, EASI)

GIS Software:
GRASS
ArcView
Intergraph MGE

Spreadsheet/Database:
Excel
Access

World-Wide-Web Authoring:
MacroMedia Dreamweaver