EnviroAtlas -- St. Louis, MO -- Meter-Scale Urban Land Cover Data (MULC) Data (2016)

The EnviroAtlas St. Louis, Missouri Meter-Scale Urban Land Cover (MULC) dataset comprises 4188 km2 around the city of St. Louis and surrounding land in parts of eleven counties within Illinois and Missouri. These MULC data and maps were derived from several sources from multiple years: LiDAR (2008-2012); 1-m pixel, four-band (red, green, blue, and near-infrared) leaf-on aerial photography acquired from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP, 2012, 2014-2016); leaf-off 6-inch pixel four-band imagery (2015) as well as ancillary vector data (e.g., roads, building footprints.). Eight land cover classes were mapped: Water, Impervious Surfaces, Soil/Barren, Tree/Forested, Grass/Herbaceous Non Woody Vegetation, Agriculture, and Wetlands (Woody and Emergent). Wetlands were delineated using the best available existing wetlands data, which was a National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) layer. An analysis of 745 completely random and 226 stratified random photo-interpreted land cover reference points yielded a simple overall user's accuracy (MAX) of 81% and an overall fuzzy user's accuracy (RIGHT) of 90% (see confusion matrices below). This dataset was produced in three phases by the University of Missouri and the East-West Gateway Council of Governments for the Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP) and the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to the 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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