Southern California 60-cm Urban Land Cover Classification

Published: 25 March 2020| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/zykyrtg36g.1
Contributor:
Red Willow Coleman

Description

This dataset represents a high resolution urban land cover classification map across the southern California Air Basin (SoCAB) with a spatial resolution of 60 cm in urban regions and 10 m in non-urban regions. This map was developed to support NASA JPL-based urban biospheric CO2 modeling in Los Angeles, CA. Land cover classification was derived from a novel fusion of Sentinel-2 (10-60 m x 10-60 m) and 2016 NAIP (60 cm x 60 cm) imagery and provides identification of impervious surface, non-photosynthetic vegetation, shrub, tree, grass, pools and lakes. Land Cover Classes in .tif file: 0: Impervious surface 1: Tree (mixed evergreen/deciduous) 2: Grass (assumed irrigated) 3: Shrub 4: Non-photosynthetic vegetation 5: Water (masked using MNDWI/NDWI) A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Support from the Earth Science Division OCO-2 program is acknowledged. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved.

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Steps to reproduce

The Google Earth Engine Code necessary to reproduce this land cover map is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/willowcoleman/landcover-rse

Institutions

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Harvey Mudd College Department of Biology

Categories

Remote Sensing, Mapping Land Use, Urban Land Cover, Los Angeles, Satellite Mapping, California

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