Vegetation and land use are mapped for the approximately 725,000 acres constituting the Legal Delta portion of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin River Delta area. Vegetation mapping is to sub-alliance to super-alliance level (based on the National Vegetation
Classification Standard, see http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/nvcs.html ); land use is mapped to Anderson Level 2 classification
( see http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/anderson.pdf ). The map classification is based on a vegetation classification derived
from field data collected in summer and fall of 2005 produced by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program of the
Department of Fish and Game. The 2002 Stockton, Sacramento, and Delta High Resolution (1-foot) Orthoimagery and 2005 NAIP
(1-meter) orthoimagery served as the base. Natural vegetation comprises approximately 17% of the Delta study area, 65% is
agriculture and pasture, 10% is urban/other and 8% is open water.
Citation
Title Delta Vegetation and Land Use [ds292]
publication Date
9999-01-01
presentationForm
mapDigital
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP), Biogeographic Data Bran
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.