EnviroAtlas - St. Louis, MO - Land Cover by Block Group

Description

This EnviroAtlas dataset describes the breakdown of the land cover classes with each Census Block Group. In this commmunity, forest is defined as Trees & Forest, and Woody Wetlands. Green space is defined as Trees & Forest, Grass & Herbaceous, Agriculture, Woody Wetlands, and Emergent Wetlands. Agriculture is defined as Agriculture alone.Wetlands are defined as Woody Wetlands and Emergent Wetlands. This dataset also includes the area per capita for each block group for some land cover types. This dataset was produced by 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
0 https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/ORD/ENVIROATLAS/Communities/StLouisMO
23 https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Communities/Community_BGmetrics/MapServer
0 https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-data
0 https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas

Tags

  • environment
  • st. louis
  • missouri
  • natural resources
  • green space
  • enviroatlas
  • ecosystem
  • ecosystem services
  • environmental atlas
  • land cover
  • census block groups
  • mo
  • communities

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