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Urban-Agriculture Land Use

This dataset covers the urban and agricultural landscape for all forms of urban and agricultural land use in California. It was created using a combination of best available land cover data from multiple sources. These data are used as a mask for selected metrics in the CLM project where inclusion of urban and agricultural cover potentially creates confusion in calculations of the metric. Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program [FMMP] land-use data from 2018 was converted to 30m raster as the base input, using the values from the Type field of: Farmland of Statewide Importance, Unique Farmland, Farmland of Local Importance, Urban and Built-Up Land, Rural Residential Land, Confined Animal Agriculture. Secondly, to bring more current data in: LANDFIRE 2020 Existing Vegetation Type [EVT] from 2020 was converted to 30m raster, using the values from EVT group name of: Developed-Low Intensity, Developed-Medium Intensity, Developed-High Intensity, Agriculture-Cultivated Crops and Irrigated Agriculture. Lastly, Building Footprints - Bing Maps (microsoft.com) polygons were converted to 30m raster and added to the stack to include the most recent urban footprints.

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Last Updated July 6, 2025, 00:39 (UTC)
Created July 6, 2025, 00:39 (UTC)
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category /Operational Data Layers/Administrative
collection_name California Landscape Metrics
creation_method Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program [FMMP] land-use data from 2018 was converted to 30m raster as the base input, using the values from the Type field of: Farmland of Statewide Importance, Unique Farmland, Farmland of Local Importance, Urban and Built-Up Land, Rural Residential Land, Confined Animal Agriculture. Secondly, to bring more current data in: LANDFIRE 2020 Existing Vegetation Type [EVT] from 2020 was converted to 30m raster, using the values from EVT group name of: Developed-Low Intensity, Developed-Medium Intensity, Developed-High Intensity, Agriculture-Cultivated Crops and Irrigated Agriculture. Lastly, Building Footprints - Bing Maps (microsoft.com) polygons were converted to 30m raster and added to the stack to include the most recent urban footprints.
data_units Thematic
data_vintage 06/2020
element Administrative
file_name UrbanAgLanduse_RRK_2020.tif
format geotiff
maximum_value 23.0
metric_definition_and_relevance This dataset covers the urban and agricultural landscape for all forms of urban and agricultural land use in California. It was created using a combination of best available land cover data from multiple sources. These data are used as a mask for selected metrics in the CLM project where inclusion of urban and agricultural cover potentially creates confusion in calculations of the metric.
minimum_value 1.0
source Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP), LANDFIRE: Existing Vegetation Type, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior MS Building Footprints
spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-0.0011184841261727718, 0.0002912721722775841], [-0.0010195322031569297, 0.0002912721722775841], [-0.0010195322031569297, 0.00037829830593814683], [-0.0011184841261727718, 0.00037829830593814683], [-0.0011184841261727718, 0.0002912721722775841]]]}
sub_collection_name Operational Data Layers