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Class
Number
Final Land Cover
Classes
1 Forest
2 Developed
Definition
3 Fields/Pastures Vegetation land cover outside municipal areas
4 Wetland
5 Water
6 Barren
7 Open Space Vegetation land cover within municipal areas
8 Deforested-Dev
Deforested for Development. Forested areas in 2000
that are currently classified as Developed.
9 Deforested-Other
Deforested. Forested areas in 2000 that are currently
classified as Fields/Pastures, Barren, or Open
Space.
3.3.3.3 Land Cover Change
Table 3-5. Land Cover Classes
Change detection analysis compared 2010 SPOT-based classified images to EOSD land cover
data from 2000. EOSD data were aggregated to forest and non-forest classes and compared to
the classified land cover (Table 3-6). Given the coarser resolution of the EOSD compared with
the SPOT image classification, a review of the 3 “sparse” forest classes in the table below was
conducted to consider whether these pixels should be included in the Open Spaces or
Fields/Pastures classes. Upon review, the sparse forest classes provided an accurate
representation of sparse forest cover and were therefore kept in the forest class and
subsequent analysis of deforested areas. Table 3-6 illustrates how the EOSD classes were
aggregated for change detection.
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