Land use and land cover of the San Joaquin Valley of California and surrounding areas

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
California State University, Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program
Publication_Date: 2004-07-10
Title:
Land use and land cover of the San Joaquin Valley of California and surrounding areas
Edition: 2004-06
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Online_Linkage: <http://esrp.csustan.edu/gis>
Description:
Abstract:
Land use and land cover of the San Joaquin Valley of California and surrounding areas.
Purpose:
To help assess the availability of suitable habitat for upland species of the San Joaquin Valley
Supplemental_Information:
This is probably the final draft of verison 1 of the ESRP land cover data. There is a version 2 planned with additional data sources and improved methodology for regular updates.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1990-01-01
Ending_Date: 2003-06-01
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.516853
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -118.429511
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.026002
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.474789
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CSA/NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: Lands
Theme_Keyword: Land use
Theme_Keyword: Urban environments
Theme_Keyword: Suburban environments
Theme_Keyword: Agricultural land
Theme_Keyword: Crop fields
Theme_Keyword: Vegetation
Theme_Keyword: Terrestrial ecosystems
Theme_Keyword: Grasslands
Theme_Keyword: Scrub
Theme_Keyword: Chaparral
Theme_Keyword: Forests
Theme_Keyword: Wetlands
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: Great Central Valley
Place_Keyword: San Joaquin Valley
Place_Keyword: Central Western California
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: CSUS/ESRP
Contact_Person: Scott Phillips
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.csustan.edu
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: esrplulc.jpg
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Sample image of land use land cover data
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Data_Set_Credit:
CSU Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program
Native_Data_Set_Environment: Win32 x86; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535

Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Shapefile converted from ARC/INFO coverage with polygon topology. Minimum mapping unit is 4 ha (about 10 acres).
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
California Department of Water Resources Division of Planning and Local Assistance
Publication_Date: 20030601
Title: Land Use Data
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
We are currently incoprorating some of the more recent data, and some data for additional areas. The following surveys are represented in this edition: 1995 Contra Costa County (95CC) 1995 Madera County (95MA) 1995 Merced County (95ME) 1995 Shasta County (95SH) 1995 Yuba County (95YU) 1996 Kings County (96KG) 1996 San Joaquin County (96SJ) 1996 South Central Coast (96SX) 1996 Stanislaus County (96SS) 1997 Monterey County (97MT) Summer 1997 San Benito County (97ST) 1997 Santa Cruz County (97SZ) 1998 Kern County (98KN) 1999 Butte County (99BU) 1999 Napa County (99NA) 1999 Tulare County (99TU) 2000 Fresno County (00FR) 2002 San Benito County (02ST) 2003 Kings County (03KG)
Online_Linkage:
<http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/landwateruse/landuse/luindex.htm>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19930601
Ending_Date: 20030601
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DWR
Source_Contribution:
Primary land use source where available. Primary source for urban and agricultural classification. Primary source to define the boundary of non-urban and non-agricultural lands.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: California Gap Analysis
Publication_Date: 19980630
Title: Land-cover for California
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Santa Barbara, California
Publisher:
Biogeography Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara
Online_Linkage: <http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/projects/gap/gap_data.html>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: GAP
Source_Contribution:
Provided land cover attribute information for non-agricultural and non-urban lands. Also used as a primary source of land use where no finer resolution or more current data was available.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title: National Wetlands Inventory
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: St.Petersburg, Florida
Publisher:
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory
Online_Linkage: <http://wetlands.fws.gov>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 24000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19730101
Ending_Date: 19981231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NWI
Source_Contribution:
Used to identify wetland communities in non-agricultural and non-urban areas
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
California Department of Conservation, Division Of Land Resource Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title:
Important Farmland (agricultural land use)
Other_Citation_Details:
Both year 2000 and year 2002 data were used.
Online_Linkage: <http://www.consrv.ca.gov/DLRP/fmmp>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FMMP
Source_Contribution:
To suppliment DWR data on agricultural and urban land use where DWR data is unavailable. Also used to update the extent of urban land use.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water/OST
Publication_Date: 19980101
Title:
GIRAS Landuse/Landcover data for the Conterminous United States by quadrangles at scale 1:250,000
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Other_Citation_Details:
Originally downloaded an EPA FTP site (mountain.epa.gov) which is no longer online. Data appears to be currently available through the EPA BASINS program.
Online_Linkage: <http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins>
Source_Scale_Denominator: 250000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19720101
Ending_Date: 19801231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: LULC
Source_Contribution:
Provided level two classification of urban areas where no other level two source was available. Also used as a supliment to the GAP data which was based on LULC but used a larger minimum mapping unit than was used originally in the LULC data.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Westlands Water District
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title: Retired Farmland
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: electronic mail system
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20030101
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: WESTLANDS
Source_Contribution:
Used to identify retired farmland in the Westlands Water District
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
CSU Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program
Publication_Date: 20010101
Title: Landsat 7 ETM+ Isoclass
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image
Other_Citation_Details:
Derived from summer 2000 Landsat ETM+ imagery of the San Joaquin Valley
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ETM_iso
Source_Contribution:
Used to identify classification errors of communities in the San Joaquin Valley
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
CSU Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program
Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
Title: ESRP secondary source interpretation
Other_Citation_Details:
Secondary source abbreviations: USGS - USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps ETM - Landsat summer 2000 ETM+ imagery SPOT - SPOT year 2000 panchromatic imagery sf-fws - Scott Frazier, FWS Kern NWR Field - Field observations or local knowlege of Scott Phillisp, CSUS/ESRP
Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20000101
Ending_Date: 20031231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: i
Source_Contribution:
Edits based on single or multiple secondary sources including USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps, year 2000 SPOT panchromatic imagery, edits to Kern National Wildlife Refuge provide by Scott Frazier of FWS, year 2000 Landsat ETM+ images, field observations and local knowledge
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Establish base of developed land use based on re-defined attributes of the DWR data and some FMMP data where DWR data was unavailable. Used GAP and LULC to supliment developed land classes where neither DWR nor FMMP where available.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: DWR
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FMMP
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: LULC
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GAP
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Cross checked, added to, and refined attribute information for urban areas from basemap established in step 1. This was done using ARC/INFO polygon overlay and topology editing tools (JOIN, ELIMINATE DISSOLVE).
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: LULC
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FMMP
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GAP
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Cross-checked and added to agricultural areas from basemap using more recent FMMP data. This was done using ARC/INFO polygon overlay and topology editing tools (JOIN, ELIMINATE DISSOLVE).
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: FMMP
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Added land cover classes from the GAP data within areas classified as generic "undeveloped" on our basemap from step 1. These include DWR lands classified as "Native Vegeation" or "Unirrigated Pasture" and FMMP lands classified as "Grazing Lands" or "Other Lands".
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: GAP
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Edited land cover classes for wetlands from the NWI data within areas classified as generic "undeveloped" on our basemap from step 1. These include DWR lands classified as "Native Vegeation" or "Unirrigated Pasture" and FMMP lands classified as "Grazing Lands" or "Other Lands".
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NWI
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
We built a mosaic of continuous Landsat ETM+ visible and infrared band data for our project area that was geographically adjusted to our base map.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ETM_iso
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
We clipped the Landsat data to only the areas containing non-developed upland communities and classified the masked data to 16 categories using an Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Technique (ISODATA). The two brightest and one darkest categories where converted to a shapefile.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ETM_iso
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
We calculated the area of each individual polygon area from the last step. We converted our data to a shapefile and reviewed the data by zooming to each polygon in the reverse order of size. Where we found errors, we manually corrected the error and changed classifications using secondary sources such as the Landsat image, a higher resolution SPOT image, and USGS topographic maps. We stopped reviewing when we got down to an arbitrary polygon size of 85 ha.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ETM_iso
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ETM
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: SPOT
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: USGS
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: i
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
We added a class for retired farmand and used data and maps from Westlands Water District and the U.S. Departmen of Interior Land Retirement Program to reclassify retired farmland in Fresno, Kings, and Tulare counties. This was done through ARC/INFO UNION, ELIMINATE, and DISSOLVE.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: WESTLANDS
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Field
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
We updated land use for the area of Kern National Wildlife Refuge with assistance of Scott Frazier of FWS, Kern NWR.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: sf-fws

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 34128

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:
Standard_Parallel: 34.000000
Standard_Parallel: 40.500000
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -120.000000
False_Easting: 0.000000
False_Northing: -4000000.000000
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001024
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001024
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: lulc200406
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: AREA
Attribute_Definition: area in meters square
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: PERIMETER
Attribute_Definition: perimeter in meters
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SRCUSED
Attribute_Definition:
Abbreviated data source or combination of sources. See attribute SOURCE for definitions.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SRCYEAR
Attribute_Definition:
Year of the source used for attribute values
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: NEWCODE
Attribute_Definition:
Land use/land cover code based on a modified version of the 1976 USGS Anderson Level 2 classification system. See attribute DESCRIP for definitions.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
A Land Use And Land Cover Classification System For Use With Remote Sensor Data, Anderson et all, 1977 (USGS Geological Survey Professional Paper 964) with additions and modifications by CSUS/ESRP.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CONFIDENCE
Attribute_Definition:
Code to indicate the processing steps used to determine attribute values. See attribute NOTES for definitions.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: CLASSITEM
Attribute_Definition:
Level 1 (more generalized) land use/land cover class
Attribute_Definition_Source:
A Land Use And Land Cover Classification System For Use With Remote Sensor Data, Anderson et all, 1977 (USGS Geological Survey Professional Paper 964).
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: DESCRIP
Attribute_Definition:
Level 2 land use/land cover classifiation
Attribute_Definition_Source:
A Land Use And Land Cover Classification System For Use With Remote Sensor Data, Anderson et all, 1977 (USGS Geological Survey Professional Paper 964) with additions and modifications by CSUS/ESRP.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LEGCLASS
Attribute_Definition:
A more generalized land use/land cover classification used for maps.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: SOURCE
Attribute_Definition:
Definitions for the short codes in attribute SRCUSED
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: NOTES
Attribute_Definition:
Definitions to the numeric codes used in attribute CONFIDENCE
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
To normalize the attribute data between sources, we cross-walked their native classification to a common classification based on the USGS Anderson level II classification system (Anderson et al. 1976). This classification system was modified to include classes of interest in the San Joaquin Valley such as retired farmland, idle farmland, desert scrub, and Valley-foothill riparian communities.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
Anderson J.R., E.E. Hardy, J.T. Roach, and R.E. Witmer. 1976. A Land Use And Land Cover Classification System For Use With Remote Sensor Data. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 964. Out of print, but available online at: <http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/4153/deltawest/landcover/LLCoverPub.html>

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: CSUS/ESRP
Contact_Person: Scott Phillips
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: Not given
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: Not given
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.csustan.edu
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries.
Standard_Order_Process:
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Transfer_Size: 37.253
Technical_Prerequisites:
Software capable of reading ESRI Shapefiles. Specifications for file format are available from: <http://www.esri.com/software/opengis/openpdf.html>. Data may be distributed in Zip compressed format. Softwrae and source code for uncompressing files is available from <http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html>.

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20041007
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
CSU Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program
Contact_Person: Scott Phillips
Contact_Position: GIS Analyst
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: Not listed
City: Fresno
State_or_Province: CA
Postal_Code: 93727
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: not listed
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.csustan.edu
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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