Map ORR Land Cover LandsatTM 30m 1984

This gridded land cover map was created by unsupervised classification of a Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper image (Chatfield and Graham, 1992). The classification accuracy was improved by stitching a 1987 SPOT image into known problem areas in the classified Landsat image. The 1987 SPOT image was classified through a supervised classification approach. The overall accuracy of the final image was assessed at 82%.

Land cover legend
0 No data
1 Water
2 Urban
4 Open/Grasses
5 Ag. Fileds/Bare Ground
6 Hardwoods
7 Hardwood-Pine Mix
8 Pine Plantations

Relevant citations
Chatfield, T. A. 1992. An Internship with the Environmental Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Development of a Land Use / Land Cover Map of the Oak Ridge Reservation and Surrounding Lands From Satellite Imagery. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Washington-Allen, R. A. and T. L. Ashwood. 1996. Terrestrial Habitat Mapping of the Oak Ridge Reservation: 1996 Summary. ES/ER/TM-201. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.