Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Timothy Hatten, USGS PM 20230726 LF 2014 raster digital data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YKVN2R http://www.landfire.gov The Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) product depicts percent canopy cover by life form and is an important input to other LANDFIRE mapping efforts. EVC is generated separately for tree, shrub and herbaceous life forms using training data and a series of geospatial predictor layers. Plots from the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of USDA Forest Service (https://www.fia.fs.usda.gov/) were used as the training data for tree canopy cover mapping, with canopy cover of the plots estimated from stem-mapped tree data and calibrated with line intercept field measurements of canopy cover (Toney and others 2009). Shrub and herbaceous canopy cover training data were also derived from plot-level, ground-based visual assessments. More information regarding contributors of field plot data can be found at http://www.landfire.gov/participate_acknowledgements.php. Regression tree models were developed separately for each life form using the training data and a combination of multitemporal Landsat data, terrain data from a digital elevation model, and biophysical gradient data layers. Cubist software was used for modeling. The derived regression tree equations were then applied to the geospatial predictor data to create 30-m resolution, life form specific data layers (i.e., separate data layers are generated for tree, shrub and herbaceous vegetation cover). Each of the derived data layers (tree, shrub, herbaceous) has a potential range of 0-100 percent canopy cover. Tree, shrub and herbaceous values were binned into discrete classes (up to 10 bins at 10 percent intervals for tree, shrub and herbaceous canopy cover). The final EVC layer was evaluated and rectified through a series of QA/QC measures to ensure that the life form of the canopy cover code matched the life form of the LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) layer. EVC is used in the development of subsequent LANDFIRE data layers. LF 2014 (lf_1.4.0) used modified LF 2010 (lf_1.2.0) data as a launching point to incorporate disturbance and its severity, both managed and natural, which occurred on the landscape 2013 and 2014. Specific examples of disturbance are: fire, vegetation management, weather, and insect and disease. The final disturbance data used in LANDFIRE is the result of several efforts that include data derived in part from remotely sensed land change methods, Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), and the LANDFIRE Events data call. Vegetation growth was modeled where both disturbance and non-disturbance occurs. Urban, agriculture, and wetlands were refined to reflect a 2012 landscape using the National Conservation Easement Database, National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), and Common Land Unit database (CLU) data. The LANDFIRE existing vegetation layers describe the following elements of existing vegetation for each LANDFIRE mapping zone: existing vegetation type, existing vegetation canopy cover, and existing vegetation height. Vegetation is mapped using predictive landscape models based on extensive field reference data, satellite imagery, biophysical gradient layers, and classification and regression trees. LANDFIRE data products are designed to facilitate national- and regional-level strategic planning and reporting of management activities. Data products are created at a 30-meter grid spatial resolution raster data set; however, the applicability of data products varies by location and specific use. Principal purposes of the data products include providing, 1) national-level, landscape-scale geospatial products to support fire and fuels management planning, and, 2) consistent fuels data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives. Users are advised to evaluate the data carefully for their applications. 2014 ground condition Complete As needed -127.9878 -65.2544 51.6202 22.7657 ISO 19115 Topic Category imageryBaseMapsEarthCover biota None raster digital data EVC Existing Vegetation Cover U.S. Forest Service (USFS) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) LANDFIRE 2014 LF 2014 USGS Thesaurus fires hazard preparedness remote sensing image collection geospatial dataset geographic information systems NGDA National Geospatial Data Asset USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:64beabb7d34e70357a31c4e5 Common geographic areas US United States CONUS Conterminous United States Continental U.S. None None LANDFIRE, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS), U.S. Geological Survey Customer Service Representative physical

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Sioux Falls SD 57198-0001 US 605-594-6151 helpdesk@landfire.gov These products were created by the LF team at USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD. Refer to the contact information throughout this metadata to contact the LF team. None in place Unclassified If there is ever doubt, contact the appropriate resource staff who has stewardship responsibility and the GIS Coordinator. Microsoft Windows 10; ESRI ArcGIS Suite Toney, Chris; Shaw, John D.; Nelson, Mark D. 20090101 publication RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 19 p. https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/33381 Products were tested to ensure that each attribute is represented consistently across all data sets. Attributes were not validated against in person observations. 0.0 Assessment not applied The products were pixel "truth" tested for consistency of land or water characteristics across all products. Products were formally tested to ensure that valid data was produced for all pixels. Each product was then validated and tested for duplicates, omissions, and errors. LF 2014 is a vegetation and fuels mapping effort to update the base product suite. LF 2014 incorporates landscape change and disturbances, such as wildland fire, fuel and vegetation treatments, insects and disease, storm damage, and invasive plants that occurred in 2013 and 2014. This update includes: responses to vegetation successional change in forested types, and revisions to address discrepancies between map products and known field conditions. The LF 2014 update also: supports wildland fire and natural resource management, planning, research, analysis, and assessments uses Landsat imagery, point, and polygon data 2013-2014, incorporates new or updated institutional data sources, changes data only where vegetation changed due to successional change or disturbance, and updates fuel products based on vegetation products. The LF 2014 update strategy applies a consistent approach to combine geospatial data depicting areas of disturbance with Remote Sensing of Landscape Change (RSLC) derived data to develop the disturbance layers. Data from combinations of Landsat satellite imagery, fire program data (e.g., Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS)), cooperator-provided field data, and other ancillary data (e.g., Protected Area Database (PAD)) are used to locate and characterize large wildfires. 20161031 Raster Grid Cell 97283 154208 1 Albers Conical Equal Area 29.5 45.5 -96.0 23.0 0.0 0.0 row and column 30.0 30.0 meters North_American_Datum_1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.2572221010042 EVC Existing Vegetation Cover attribute table. LANDFIRE ObjectID Internal feature number. ESRI OID Value Existing vegetation cover LANDFIRE NoData -9999 LANDFIRE 11 Open Water LANDFIRE 12 Snow/Ice LANDFIRE 13 Developed-Upland Deciduous Forest LANDFIRE 14 Developed-Upland Evergreen Forest LANDFIRE 15 Developed-Upland Mixed Forest LANDFIRE 16 Developed-Upland Herbaceous LANDFIRE 17 Developed-Upland Shrubland LANDFIRE 18 Developed-Herbaceous Wetland Vegetation LANDFIRE 19 Developed-Woody Wetland Vegetation LANDFIRE 20 Developed - General LANDFIRE 21 Developed - Open Space LANDFIRE 22 Developed - Low Intensity LANDFIRE 23 Developed - Medium Intensity LANDFIRE 24 Developed - High Intensity LANDFIRE 25 Developed-Roads LANDFIRE 31 Barren LANDFIRE 32 Quarries-Strip Mines-Gravel Pits LANDFIRE 60 NASS-Orchard LANDFIRE 61 NASS-Vineyard LANDFIRE 62 NASS-Bush fruit and berries LANDFIRE 63 NASS-Row Crop-Close Grown Crop LANDFIRE 64 NASS-Row Crop LANDFIRE 65 NASS-Close Grown Crop LANDFIRE 66 NASS-Pasture and Hayland LANDFIRE 67 NASS-Pasture and Hayland LANDFIRE 68 NASS-Wheat LANDFIRE 69 NASS - Aquaculture LANDFIRE 75 Herbaceous Semi-dry LANDFIRE 76 Herbaceous Semi-wet LANDFIRE 78 Recently Disturbed Forest LANDFIRE 80 Agriculture - General LANDFIRE 81 Pasture/Hay LANDFIRE 82 Cultivated Crops LANDFIRE 83 Small Grains LANDFIRE 84 Fallow LANDFIRE 85 Urban-Recreational Grasses LANDFIRE 95 Herbaceous Wetlands LANDFIRE 100 Sparse Vegetation Canopy LANDFIRE 101 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 10 and less than 20% LANDFIRE 102 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 20 and less than 30% LANDFIRE 103 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 30 and less than 40% LANDFIRE 104 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 40 and less than 50% LANDFIRE 105 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 50 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 106 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 60 and less than 70% LANDFIRE 107 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 70 and less than 80% LANDFIRE 108 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 80 and less than 90% LANDFIRE 109 Tree Cover greater than or equal to 90 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE 111 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 10 and less than 20% LANDFIRE 112 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 20 and less than 30% LANDFIRE 113 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 30 and less than 40% LANDFIRE 114 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 40 and less than 50% LANDFIRE 115 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 50 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 116 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 60 and less than 70% LANDFIRE 117 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 70 and less than 80% LANDFIRE 118 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 80 and less than 90% LANDFIRE 119 Shrub Cover greater than or equal to 90 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE 121 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 10 and less than 20% LANDFIRE 122 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 20 and less than 30% LANDFIRE 123 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 30 and less than 40% LANDFIRE 124 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 40 and less than 50% LANDFIRE 125 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 50 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 126 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 60 and less than 70% LANDFIRE 127 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 70 and less than 80% LANDFIRE 128 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 80 and less than 90% LANDFIRE 129 Herb Cover greater than or equal to 90 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE 150 Sparse Vegetation Canopy LANDFIRE 151 Tree Canopy greater than or equal to 10 and less than 25% LANDFIRE 152 Tree Canopy greater than or equal to 25 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 153 Tree Canopy greater than or equal to 60 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE 161 Shrub Canopy greater than or equal to 10 and less than 25% LANDFIRE 162 Shrub Canopy greater than or equal to 25 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 163 Shrub Canopy greater than or equal to 60 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE 171 Herb Canopy greater than or equal to 10 and less than 60% LANDFIRE 172 Herb Canopy greater than or equal to 60 and less than or equal to 100% LANDFIRE Count Number of pixels LANDFIRE Number of pixels CLASSNAMES Existing vegetation cover name LANDFIRE Name R Red color value LANDFIRE 0 1 G Green color value LANDFIRE 0 1 B Blue color value LANDFIRE 0 1 Red Red color value/255 LANDFIRE 1 255 Green Green color value/255 LANDFIRE 1 255 Blue Blue color value/255 LANDFIRE 1 255 LANDFIRE (LF) 2014 Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) CONUS. An Attribute Table is included with each product download as a .csv and embedded in the metadata. The Attribute Data Dictionary (ADD) can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/. https://www.landfire.gov/evc.php U.S. Geological Survey GS ScienceBase mailing address

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Denver CO 80225 United States 1-888-275-8747 sciencebase@usgs.gov This product is reproduced from geospatial information prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) USGS EROS. By removing the contents of this package or taking receipt of these files via electronic file transfer methods, you understand that the data stored on this media can be updated at any time. Represented features may not be in an accurate geographic location. USGS EROS makes no expressed or implied warranty, including warranty of merchantability and fitness, with respect to the character, function, or capabilities of the data or their appropriateness for any user's purposes. USGS EROS reserves the right to correct, update, modify, or replace this geospatial information without notification. Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. ARCG ArcGIS 9.3 LF 2014 42.886 https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YKVN2R None 20230928 LANDFIRE, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS), U.S. Geological Survey Customer Service Representative physical

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