Lake Okeechobee Littoral Vegetation (2016)

This polygon feature class defines the extent and type of littoral vegetation in the Moore Haven and south islands parts of the Lake Okeechobee Marsh circa 2016. A grid-based approach was used to identify the dominant vegetation type within each 100 sq meter (1 hectare) area. Dominant vegetation type was photointerpreted from 9 inch stereoscopic aerial imagery collected June 2016. General Description is provided as a reference for dominant vegetation class of 100 m grids (1 hectare). SFWMD conducted an internal accuracy assessment of the 2016 Lake Okeechobee vegetation map. The assessment was conducted both on the softcopy stereo veg mapping work station and in the field via helicopter flights. Dominant (VegLabel1) vegetation classes were tallied up to calculate each dominant class' contribution toward the total percent of all the classified grid cells.