Lake Okeechobee Littoral Vegetation (2015)

This polygon feature class defines the extent and type of littoral vegetation within the northwestern marsh portion of Lake Okeechobee circa 2015. A grid-based approach was used to identify the dominant vegetation type within each 100 sq meter (1 hectare) area. Dominant vegetation types were photointerpreted from 12 inch stereoscopic aerial imagery collected May-June 2015 (1 hectare). SFWMD conducted an internal accuracy assessment of the map. The assessment was conducted both on the softcopy stereo vegetation 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.