Vegetation - Alameda and Contra Costa County [ds3206]

The Alameda and Contra Costa County fine scale vegetation map is a 115-class vegetation map of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties with 140,442 polygons. The East Bay Regional Park District initiated this project to map the topography, physical and biotic features, and diverse plant communities of the east bay region. The mapping study area, consists of approximately 987,000 acres of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The minimum mapping unit (MMU) for this project ranges from 1/5 to 1 acre depending on feature type. The data for this map includes lidar derivatives, 2020 NAIP imagery, and field-collected data. The floristic classification follows protocols compliant with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and National Vegetation Classification Standards (NVCS).