GIS Shapefile - Vegetation by block group Baltimore City

Areal summary of vegetation by census block group for Baltimore City. This dataset summarizes area occupied by vegetation (forest and grass) for every block group in Baltimore City. It also presents the normalized vegetaion area for each census block group. The area was normalized by taking the vegetation area and dividing it by the area of the block group. The vegetation data used in this dataset came from MD DNR's IKONOS derived SUFA vegetation layer. The census boundaries are from GDT's Dynamap census dataset.