Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Littoral Vegetation - 2005

This dataset serves as documentation of vegetation in the littoral zones around Cypress Lake, Lake Hatchineha, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida using digital aerial photography.The Vegetation communities were mapped using digital aerial imagery acquired from a Leica ADS40 camera in December of 2005 at a scale of 1 foot pixel resolution. Fieldwork documented vegetative species and communities to ensure that imagery signatures correlated to field conditions. A combination of automated image classification and manual photointerpretation was used to delineate vegetation types from the imagery. Each distinct community of emergent and floating vegetation was mapped according to the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System (FLUCCS).