Baseline High Resolution Land Cover Map for the Mainstem Klamath River Corridor Downstream of Iron Gate Dam, Klamath River, CA, 2018

Publication Date

2022-10-26

Start Date

2018

End Date

2018

Byrd, K.B., Hartley, S.H., Poitras, T., and Curtis, J.A., 2022, Baseline High Resolution Land Cover Map for the Mainstem Klamath River Corridor Downstream of Iron Gate Dam, Klamath River, CA, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YT80J4.

Baseline land cover maps were created to show the spatial distribution of major vegetation types (grass, trees and shrubs), rock outcrops, bare ground and water along the mainstem Klamath River corridor from Iron Gate Dam to the estuary prior to dam removal. The intended uses of these data include, but are not limited to, comparison of the distribution and area of land cover types before and after dam removal and characterization of the biological and physical responses to dam removal. Users should be aware of the inherent errors in remote sensing products. Users may create a Level I classification with improved accuracy by combining the bare ground and rock outcrop classes into a single unvegetated class and the trees, shrubs and grass classes into a single vegetated class.

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