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Puerto Rico 2000 GAP Land Cover

15-Meter Resolution of Puerto Rico and surrounding Islands and Cays.

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Gould WA, Alarcón C, Fevold B, Jiménez ME, Martinuzzi S, Potts G, Quiñones M, Solórzano M, Ventosa E. 2008. The Puerto Rico Gap Analysis Project. Volume 1: Land cover, vertebrate species distributions, and land stewardship. Gen. Tech. Rep. IITF-GTR-39. Río Piedras, PR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry. 165 p.

Summary

The Puerto Rico 2000 land cover, created as part of the Puerto Rico GAP Analysis project supported by the USGS, is a seventy-class land cover classification. The PRGAP land cover is based primarily on the unsupervised classification of eighteen Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper + (ETM+) scenes acquired from 1999 - 2003. The Landsat 7 scenes were separated into wet and dry season imagery, mosaiced, and segmented based on geo-climatic zones. The land cover was created through the use of the spectral information derived from the satellite imagery and ancillary data such as geology, topography, hydrology and land use history. The Puerto Rico GAP 2000 land cover product represents the first time a 15 meter spatial resolution land cover [...]

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Purpose

Interpretation and classification of recent Landsat TM imagery is a key component of the Gap analysis process. Accurate vertebrate distribution mapping and analysis is only possible if both species-habitat models and habitat maps reflect real relationships and landscape patterns.

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  • Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative
  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal

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