land use

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2022-0047

Abstract:

This data publication contains six raster datasets detailing the land cover and forest structure of several Caribbean islands. These include the islands of St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius, Grenada and Barbados. Each dataset represents land-cover and woody vegetation formations and is provided as an ERDAS IMAGINE georeferenced raster file and as a GeoTIFF raster file. Spatial land cover datasets for Barbados were created using Landsat ETM+ imagery from 2001 and 2002. Grenada datasets were created using Landsat ETM+ imagery from 2000 and 2001 and Landsat 5 TM imagery from 1986. Lastly, spatial land cover datasets for St. Kitts, Nevis, and St. Eustatius were created using Landsat ETM+ imagery dated between 1999 and 2003.

 

Keywords:

land cover; land use; forest formation; forest type; forest conservation; biota; environment; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; planningCadastre; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; Forest Products; Bioenergy and biomass; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; Landscape management; Timber; Wilderness; St. Kitts; Nevis; St. Eustatius; Grenada; Ronde Island; Barbados; Caribbean; Lesser Antilles; Netherland Antilles

Land use map Bonaire at 2x2 m2 resolution, based on a classified Pleiades composite orthophoto  the Bonaire vegetation survey and field observations from 2017, 2019 and 2020 by Mucher,C.A., Janssen, J., de Freitas, J., Schaminee, J., Houtepen, E., van Blerk, J., Coolen, Q., Bertual, P. and Verweij, P.

Distinguished classes:

• Built-up
• Urban bare soil
• Road
• Urban green
• Bare soil and pioneer vegetation
• Sandy beaches
• Low scrub and mangrove
• Low scrub
• Low scrub with cactus
• High scrub
• High scrub with cactus
• Forest
• Mangrove
• Salina
• Salt ponds
• Crystalizer ponds
• Deep sea
• Shallow coastal waters
• Lagoon
• Shallow inland waters

Read the report here.

The photo-geological observations and land capability's land use survey of the island of Bonaire shows
1. topographical features and land use data based on aerial photographs (year of photography 1949)
2. location and analysis of soil and water samples