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EnviroAtlas - Landcover Summaries by Place for Guam

Metadata Updated: August 3, 2025

This EnviroAtlas dataset represents the percentage of land area within each census place in Guam that is classified as Canopy, Impervious Surface, and Vegetation using the 2022 NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) dataset. It also includes calculations of these landcover classes per capita (square meters per person) by place based on 2020 United States Census data. Finally, ratios of canopy to impervious surface and vegetation to impervious surface were calculated by place. Vegetation includes canopy and scrub/shrub classes, but does not include other types of green space.

    Datasets for other geographies were produced separately; metadata for these related datasets may be found here: 
    American Samoa https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/MetadataFGDC/CanopyVegetationImpervious_AS_place.xml, 
    Northern Mariana Islands https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/MetadataFGDC/CanopyVegetationImpervious_CNMI_place.xml.

    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).

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date August 1, 2025
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 3, 2025
Reference Date(s) October 18, 2024 (creation), December 12, 2024 (publication)
Frequency Of Update asNeeded

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date August 1, 2025
Metadata Created Date August 3, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 3, 2025
Reference Date(s) October 18, 2024 (creation), December 12, 2024 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development - Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA), EnviroAtlas (Publisher)
Contact Email
Guid AC61D028-4677-435C-8740-8458A4D60D58
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Bbox East Long 144.956712
Bbox North Lat 13.654383
Bbox South Lat 13.234189
Bbox West Long 144.618068
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update asNeeded
Harvest Object Id 2686b8a4-f261-48f5-9cbf-79e1a10b909f
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currency and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.
Lineage September - October 2024 Input Data 1. Feature Classes: 2020 Census place shapefiles for Guam. 2. Land Cover Rasters: 2022 NOAA C-CAP rasters for water, impervious surface, and canopy for each territory. (https://coastalimagery.blob.core.windows.net/ccap-landcover/CCAP_bulk_download/High_Resolution_Land_Cover/Phase_1_Initial_Layers/index.html) 3. Population Data: 2020 Census Island Area Demographic Profile population data by place for each territory (https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.2020.html#list-tab-1883739534). Processing Steps 1. Coordinate Transformation o Place boundary feature classes were transformed from NAD 1983 to WGS 1984 UTM Zone 55N. o Rasters were already in WGS 1984 UTM Zone 55N. 2. Land Cover Tabulation o Areas for each land cover raster were calculated per place using Tabulate Area with the AFFGEOID column as the zone field. o Tabulated results were joined to the place feature class via the AFFGEOID column. 3. Calculations Five derived fields were added to the block group attribute table and calculated as follows: o PercentLandCanopy = (Area of canopy (value 1)/Area of land (water value 0))×100 o PercentLandImpervious = (Area of impervious surface (value 1)/Area of land (water value 0))×100 o PercentLandVegetation = (Area of canopy (values 1 + 2)/Area of land (water value 0))×100 o CanopyImpRatio = Area of canopy (value 1)/Area of impervious surface (value 1) o VegetationImpRatio = Area of canopy raster (values 1 + 2)/Area of impervious surface (value 1) Note: In the canopy raster, values 1 and 2 represent "canopy" and "scrub/shrub" respectively. In the impervious raster, value 1 represents impervious surface. In the water raster, value 0 represents land area and value 1 represents water area. 4. Population Data Integration o The 2020 census population table was joined to the place table via the AFFGEOID column. 5. Per Capita Metrics Three additional fields were added and calculated as follows: o CanopyPerCapita = Area of canopy (value 1)/Population o ImperviousPerCapita = Area of impervious surface (value 1)/Population o VegetationPerCapita = Area of canopy (values 1 + 2)/Population The final tables for each of the three territories were merged.
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[144.618068, 13.234189], [144.956712, 13.234189], [144.956712, 13.654383], [144.618068, 13.654383], [144.618068, 13.234189]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 32655
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2020-01-01T00:00:00
Temporal Extent End 2022-12-31T00:00:00

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