Generation of a U.S. national urban land use product
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Abstract
Characterization of urban land uses is essential for many applications. However, differentiating among thematically-detailed urban land uses (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, recreational, etc.) over broad areas is challenging, in part because image-based solutions are not ideal for establishing the contextual basis for identifying economic function and use. At present no current United States national-scale mapping exists for urban land uses similar to the classical Anderson Level II classification. This paper describes a product that maps urban land uses, and is linked to and corresponds with the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2006. In this product, NLCD urban pixels, in addition to their current imperviousness intensity classification, are assigned one of nine urban use classes based on information drawn from multiple data sources. These sources include detailed infrastructure information, population characteristics, and historical land use. The result is a method for creating a 30 m national-scale grid providing thematically-detailed urban land use information which complements the NLCD. Initial results for 10 major metropolitan areas are provided as an on-line link. Accuracy assessment of initial products yielded an overall accuracy of 81.6 percent.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Generation of a U.S. national urban land use product |
| Series title | Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing |
| DOI | 10.14358/PERS.78.10.1057 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, National Water Quality Assessment Program |
| Description | 12 p. |
| First page | 1057 |
| Last page | 1068 |
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