WSP11837

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 10/1/1978
• Author: USGS
• Title: Preliminary Applications of Landsat Images and Aerial Photography for Determining Land-Use - Geologic - and Hydrologic Characteristics - Yampa River Basin - Colorado and Wyoming - October 1978
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Table 2,--Land-use and land-cover classification system for use
with remote-sensor data

[Modified from Anderson, Hardy, Roach, and Witmer, 1976]

Cate-
gory
number

Level I

Level II

Urban or bui It-up land-- 1.1 Residential.
1.2 Commercial and services.
1.3 Industrial.
1.4 Transportation, communications, and
util ities.
1.5 Industrial and commercial complexes.
1.6 Mixed urban or built-up land.
1.7 Other urban or built-up land,

2 Agricul tural land------- 2.1 Cropland and pasture.
2.2 Orchards, groves, vineyards, nurseries,
and ornamental horticultural areas,
2.3 Confined feeding operations.
2,4 Other agricultural land,

3 Rangeland--------------- 3,1 Herbaceous rangeland.
3,2 Shrub and brush rangeland.
3.3 Mixed rangeland.

4 Forest land------------- 4.1 Deciduous forest land,
4.2 Evergreen forest land.
4.3 Mixed forest land.

5 Water------------------- 5.1 Streams and canals.
5.2 Lakes.
5,3 Reservoirs.
5,4 Bays and estuaries.

6 Wetland----------------- 6.1 Forested wetland,
6.2 Nonforested wetland.

7 Barren land------------- 7.1 Dry salt flats.
7.2 Beaches.
7.3 Sandy areas other than beaches,
7,4 Bare, exposed rock,
7,5 Strip mines, quarries, and gravel pits.
7.6 Transitional areas.
7.7 Mixed barren land.

8 Tundra------------------ 8.1 Shrub and brush tundra,
8,2 Herbaceous tundra,
8,3 Bare ground tundra.
8.4 Wet tundra,
8.5 Mixed tundra.

9 Perennial snow or ice--- 9.1 Perennial snowfields.
9,2 Glaciers.

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