EnviroAtlas -- Chicago, IL -- Meter-Scale Urban Land Cover (MULC) Data (2013)

Description

The Chicago, IL EnviroAtlas Meter-scale Urban Land Cover (MULC) dataset comprises 14,687 km2 around the city of Chicago and surrounding counties in Illinois and Indiana. The study area spans 10 counties (7 in Illinois, 3 in Indiana). These MULC data and maps were derived from LiDAR and 1-m pixel, four-band (red, green, blue, and near-infrared) leaf-on aerial photography acquired from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) as well as ancillary vector data (e.g., roads, building footprints). Seven land cover classes were mapped: Water, Impervious Surfaces, Soil/Barren, Trees/Forest, Grass/Herbaceous Non-Woody Vegetation, Agriculture, and Wetlands (Woody and Emergent). Wetlands were delineated using the best available existing wetlands data, which was a National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) layer. An analysis of 600 completely random and 97 stratified random photo-interpreted land cover reference points yielded a simple overall user's accuracy (MAX) of 81% and an overall fuzzy user's accuracy (RIGHT) of 87% (see confusion matrices below). This dataset was produced by the University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Laboratory, the United States Forest Service Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) assessment program, and the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/download/CIL_MULC_tif.zip
23 The endpoint of a web service to access the dataset (REST endpoint, WMS GetCapabilities URL, or a SOAP WSDL endpoint). https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Supplemental/Landcover_AllCommunities/ImageServer
0 URL for accessing related documents such as data dictionary, technical information about a dataset, developer documentation, etc. https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data
0 Alternative landing page used to redirect user to a contextual, Agency-hosted "homepage" for the Dataset or API https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas

Tags

  • environment
  • indiana
  • green space
  • agriculture
  • enviroatlas
  • ecosystem
  • chicago
  • ecosystem services
  • wetlands
  • water
  • environmental atlas
  • land
  • land cover
  • biophysical
  • il
  • illinois
  • surface water
  • communities

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