FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: Florida Cooperative Land Cover Version 3.3 Raster - State Classes 

Geodataset Name:       CLC_V3_3_STATE
Geodataset Type:       
Geodataset Feature:    10-METER CELL
Feature Count:         78
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The Cooperative Land Cover Map is a project to develop an improved statewide land cover map from existing sources and expert review of aerial photography. The project is directly tied to a goal of Florida's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) to represent Florida's diverse habitats in a spatially-explicit manner. The Cooperative Land Cover Map integrates 3 primary data types: 1) 6 million acres are derived from local or site-specific data sources, primarily on existing conservation lands. Most of these sources have a ground-truth or local knowledge component. We collected land cover and vegetation data from 37 existing sources. Each dataset was evaluated for consistency and quality and assigned a confidence category that determined how it was integrated into the final land cover map. 2) 1.4 million acres are derived from areas that FNAI ecologists reviewed with high resolution aerial photography. These areas were reviewed because other data indicated some potential for the presence of a focal community: scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhill, dry prairie, pine rockland, rockland hammock, upland pine or mesic flatwoods. 3) 3.2 million acres are represented by Florida Land Use Land Cover data from the FL Department of Environmental Protection and Water Management Districts (FLUCCS). The Cooperative Land Cover Map integrates data from the following years: NWFWMD: 2006 - 07 SRWMD: 2005 - 08 SJRWMD: 2004 SFWMD: 2004 SWFWMD: 2008 All data were cross walked into the Florida Land Cover Classification System. This project was funded by a grant from FWC/Florida's Wildlife Legacy Initiative (Project 08009) to Florida Natural Areas Inventory. The current dataset is provided in 10m raster grid format. Changes from Version 1.1 to Version 2.3: CLC v2.3 includes updated Florida Land Use Land Cover for four water management districts as described above: NWFWMD, SJRWMD, SFWMD, SWFWMD CLC v2.3 incorporates major revisions to natural coastal land cover and natural communities potentially affected by sea level rise. These revisions were undertaken by FNAI as part of two projects: Re-evaluating Florida's Ecological Conservation Priorities in the Face of Sea Level Rise (funded by the Yale Mapping Framework for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation) and Predicting and Mitigating the Effects of Sea-Level Rise and Land Use Changes on Imperiled Species and Natural communities in Florida (funded by an FWC State Wildlife Grant and The Kresge Foundation). FNAI also opportunistically revised natural communities as needed in the course of species habitat mapping work funded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. CLC v2.3 also includes several new site specific data sources: New or revised FNAI natural community maps for 13 conservation lands and 9 Florida Forever proposals; new Florida Park Service maps for 10 parks; Sarasota County Preserves Habitat Maps (with FNAI review); Sarasota County HCP Florida Scrub-Jay Habitat (with FNAI Review); Southwest Florida Scrub Working Group scrub polygons. Several corrections to the crosswalk of FLUCCS to FLCS were made, including review and reclassification of interior sand beaches that were originally cross walked to beach dune, and reclassification of upland hardwood forest south of Lake Okeechobee to mesic hammock. Representation of state waters was expanded to include the NOAA Submerged Lands Act data for Florida. Changes from Version 2.3 to 3.0: CLC v3.0 now includes state wide Florida NAVTEQ transportation data. CLC v3.0 incorporates revisions to scrub, scrubby flatwoods, mesic flatwoods, and upland pine classes. Revisions were also made to sand beach, riverine sand bar, and beach dune previously misclassified as high intensity urban or extractive. An additional class, scrub mangrove – 5252, was added to the crosswalk. Mangrove swamp was reviewed and reclassified to include areas of scrub mangrove. Changes from Version 3.0 to Version 3.1: CLC v3.1 includes several new site specific data sources: Revised FNAI natural community maps for 31 WMAs, and 6 Florida Forever areas or proposals. This data was either extracted from v2.3, or from more recent mapping efforts. Domains have been removed from the attribute table, and a class name field has been added for SITE and STATE level classes. The Dry Tortugas have been reincorporated. The geographic extent has been revised for the Coastal Upland and Dry Prairie classes. Rural Open and the Extractive classes underwent a more thorough review. Changes from Version 3.1 to Version 3.2: CLC v3.2 includes several new site specific data sources: Revised FNAI natural community maps for 43 Florida Park Service lands, and 9 Florida Forever areas or proposals. This data is from 2014 - 2016 mapping efforts. SITE level class review: Wet Coniferous plantation (2450) from v2.3 has been included in v3.2. Non-Vegetated Wetland (2300), Urban Open Land (18211), Cropland/Pasture (18331), and High Pine and Scrub (1200) have undergone thorough review and reclassification where appropriate. Other classification errors were opportunistically corrected as found or as reported by users to landcovermap@myfwc.com. Changes from Version 3.2 to Version 3.2.5: CLC v3.2.5 includes several new site specific data sources: Revised FNAI natural community maps for 16 FWC managed or co-managed lands, 8 State Forests, 1 Florida Park Service managed greenway, and 1 Florida Forever proposal. This data is from 2016 - 2017 mapping efforts. Changes from Version 3.2.5 to Version 3.3: The CLC v3.3 includes several new site specific data sources: Revised FNAI natural community maps for 14 FWC managed or co-managed lands, including 7 WMA and 7 WEA, 1 State Forest, 3 Hillsboro County managed areas, and 1 Florida Forever proposal. This data is from the 2017 – 2018 mapping efforts. Select sites and classes were included from the 2016 – 2017 NWFWMD (FLUCCS) dataset. M.C. Davis Conservation areas, 18331x agricultural classes underwent a thorough review and reclassification where appropriate. Prairie Mesic Hammock (1122) was reclassified to Prairie Hydric Hammock (22322) in the Everglades. All SITE level Tree Plantations (18333) were reclassified to Coniferous Plantations (183332). The addition of FWC Oyster Bar (5230) features. Other classification errors were opportunistically corrected as found or as reported by users to landcovermap@myfwc.com, including classification corrections to sites in T.M. Goodwin and Ocala National Forest. CLC v3.3 utilizes the updated The Florida Land Cover Classification System (2018), altering the following class names and numbers: Irrigated Row Crops (1833111), Wet Coniferous Plantations (1833321) (formerly 2450), Major Springs (4131) (formerly 3118). Mixed Hardwood-Coniferous Swamps (2240) (formerly Other Wetland Forested Mixed). Major updates from version 3.2 to 3.3 Overall revisions to classes were conducted to correct for boundary errors, mislabeled classes, and hard edges between classes. The addition of updated data for 30 FWC managed or co-managed lands, 9 State Forests, 1 Florida Park Service land, 2 Florida Forever proposals, 3 Hillsboro County managed or comanaged lands, and select sites from NWFMD. This data is from 2016 – 2018 mapping efforts. Class specific revisions include: Prairie Mesic Hammock (1122) to Prairie Hydric Hammock (22322) in the Everglades. All SITE level Tree Plantations (18333) were reclassified to Coniferous Plantations (183332). The addition of FWC Oyster Bar (5230) features. 18331x agricultural classes underwent a thorough review and reclassification where appropriate. CLC v3.3 utilizes the updated The Florida Land Cover Classification System (2018), altering the following class names and numbers: Irrigated Row Crops (1833111), Wet Coniferous Plantations (1833321) (formerly 2450), Major Springs (4131) (formerly 3118). Mixed Hardwood-Coniferous Swamps (2240) (formerly Other Wetland Forested Mixed). 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    FWC-FWRI
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20180901
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            Begin Date: 20080101    End Date: 20180901
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FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: CLC_V3_3_STATE
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OID
4 OID
VALUE
4 Integer
COUNT
8 Double
STATE
4 Integer
NAME_STATE
254 String
LEGEND
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OID

Internal feature number.
















VALUE

Corresponds to the Florida Land Cover Classification System class code
















COUNT

Count of cells with same value
















STATE

Florida Land Cover Classification System class code
















NAME_STATE

Florida Land Cover Classification System class name
















LEGEND

Undefined by Source




























USER NOTES:








Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values













Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within specified ranges 
and all pixel cells were classified.













The purpose of the Cooperative Land Cover Map is to fill a priority data gap of 
Florida's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) for improved habitat mapping. In 
addition it provides significantly improved data for scrub and sandhill, priority habitats 
of the SWAP. The map will inform a variety of conservation and management 
activities in Florida.















Data are intended to be used for general informational and planning purposes and 
not appropriate for legal, regulatory and/or cadastral purposes














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DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 











GeoPlan downloaded this data in December 2019 from:
https://myfwc.com/research/gis/applications/articles/cooperative-land-cover/

-There are no new values or descripts.
-A reclass (matching v3.2) was done in order to create an 8 bit version instead of 
the original 32 bit.
-Thre was not a NoData or 0 value present, so one was added (and calculated to 
0) for analysis purposes.
Process Date: 20191204


Metadata imported.
Process Date: 20191204








MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS: 



Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000




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Nokuse Plantation Land Cover
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