Southern California 60-cm Urban Land Cover Classification

This dataset represents a high resolution urban land cover classification map across the southern California Air Basin (SoCAB) with a spatial resolution of 60 cm in urban regions and 10 m in non-urban regions. This map was developed to support NASA JPL-based urban biospheric CO2 modeling in Los Angeles, CA. Land cover classification was derived from a novel fusion of Sentinel-2 (10-60 m x 10-60 m) and 2016 NAIP (60 cm x 60 cm) imagery and provides identification of impervious surface, non-photosynthetic vegetation, shrub, tree, grass, pools and lakes.

Land Cover Classes in .tif file:
0: Impervious surface
1: Tree (mixed evergreen/deciduous)
2: Grass (assumed irrigated)
3: Shrub
4: Non-photosynthetic vegetation
5: Water (masked using MNDWI/NDWI)

Google Earth Engine interactive app displaying this map: https://wcoleman.users.earthengine.app/view/socab-irrigated-classification

A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Support from the Earth Science Division OCO-2 program is acknowledged. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved.