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High-Resolution (1 Meter) Land Cover for 98 counties in West Virginia (2020), Virginia (2021), and Pennsylvania (2022); providing complete coverage for EPA Region 3 when combined with 2021 - 2022 Chesapeake Bay Program Land Use / Land Cover data.

Metadata Updated: April 18, 2025

This map shows high-resolution (1 meter) land cover in the EPA Region 3, covering the parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania outside of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. It contains the following classes: Water, Tree Canopy, Scrub\Shrub, Low Vegetation, Barren, Impervious Structures, Other Impervious, Impervious Roads, Tree Canopy Over Impervious Structures, Tree Canopy Over Other Impervious, and Tree Canopy Over Impervious Roads. Using object-based image analysis mapping techniques, it was mapped from a combination of remote-sensing imagery and GIS datasets, including LiDAR, multispectral imagery, and thematic layers (e.g., roads, building footprints). Draft output was then manually reviewed and edited to eliminate obvious errors of omission and commission. The classification scheme closely follows a similar mapping effort for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; together, maps from the two projects cover the entirety of the EPA Region 3 states. One difference between the projects, however, is that tidal wetlands were mapped in the Chesapeake Bay effort, included as the class Emergent Wetlands, but not in the EPA Region 3 zones outside of the watershed. The map is considered current as of 2020 for West Virginia, 2021 for Virginia, and 2022 for Pennsylvania.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 15, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 18, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from EPA ScienceHub

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 15, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 18, 2025
Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
Maintainer
Identifier https://doi.org/10.23719/1532161
Data Last Modified 2025-04-01
Public Access Level public
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Harvest Source Title EPA ScienceHub
License https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license.html
Program Code 020:000
Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash dad9bdc09787d71d9074496f94ba1a6ffbe7cb601392f0942a5fc3f96037e511
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