Land management and land planning requires a knowledge of the current state of the landscape. Understanding current land cover and how it is being used, along with an accurate means of monitoring change over time, is vital to any person responsible for land management. Measuring current conditions and how they are changing can be easily achieved through land cover mapping, a process that quantifies current land resources into a series of thematic categories, such as forest, water, and paved surfaces.
By using remotely sensed imagery and semi-automated classification methods, Sanborn provides cost- effective and accurate means to derive land resource information and maintain its currency into the future.
More current, accurate, and cost-effective methods for gathering information about landscape change have become increasingly evident to users in the fields of urban planning, land management, and natural resource conservation. Sanborn offers three scales of land cover products that can be tailored to meet your needs from nationwide mapping to town and cities.
Who benefits from Land Cover Mapping?
The surface of the Earth is continuously changing at many levels; local, regional, national, and global scales. Changes in land use and land cover are pervasive, increasingly rapid, and can have significant impacts for people, the economy, and the environment. Organizations that will benefit from the information derived from land cover solutions are:
Federal agencies
State, city, county government agencies
Environment and research organizations
Water districts
Engineering firms
Private forestry organizations
Land Cover Mapping Applications
Sanborn’s land cover products and solutions are used for planning land use and deriving additional thematic layers to support land management applications such as:
Impervious quantifications for stormwater runoff prediction and drainage requirements
Tree canopy calculations for stormwater runoff and pollution impact studies
Irrigated and non-irrigated water use calculations for arid areas
Environmental assessment of undeveloped and vacant land identification
Planning green space and trails for recreational purposes and other urban planning applications
Ecosystem or forest species and community maps
Fire hazard maps that relate to fuel availability for wild land fires
Urban planning assessment
Land management and land planning requires a knowledge of the current state of the landscape. Understanding current land cover and how it is being used, along with an accurate means of monitoring change over time, is vital to any person responsible for land management. Measuring current conditions and how they are changing can be easily achieved through land cover mapping, a process that quantifies current land resources into a series of thematic categories, such as forest, water, and paved surfaces.
By using remotely sensed imagery and semi-automated classification methods, Sanborn provides cost- effective and accurate means to derive land resource information and maintain its currency into the future
More current, accurate, and cost-effective methods for gathering information about landscape change have become increasingly evident to users in the fields of urban planning, land management, and natural resource conservation. Sanborn offers three scales of land cover products that can be tailored to meet your needs from nationwide mapping to town and cities.
Who benefits from Land Cover Mapping?
The surface of the Earth is continuously changing at many levels; local, regional, national, and global scales. Changes in land use and land cover are pervasive, increasingly rapid, and can have significant impacts for people, the economy, and the environment. Organizations that will benefit from the information derived from land cover solutions are:
Federal agencies
State, city, county government agencies
Environment and research organizations
Water districts
Engineering firms
Private forestry organizations
Land Cover Mapping Applications
Sanborn’s land cover products and solutions are used for planning land use and deriving additional thematic layers to support land management applications such as:
Impervious quantifications for stormwater runoff prediction and drainage requirements
Tree canopy calculations for stormwater runoff and pollution impact studies
Irrigated and non-irrigated water use calculations for arid areas
Environmental assessment of undeveloped and vacant land identification
Planning green space and trails for recreational purposes and other urban planning applications
Ecosystem or forest species and community maps
Fire hazard maps that relate to fuel availability for wild land fires
Urban planning assessment
State of Maine DEP | Land Cover and Impervious Data
“
The new Maine land cover and impervious data provided by Sanborn has gone such a long way to providing our users with better tools to make decisions. We can perform watershed analyses and do modeling at a scale and accuracy level that was never before possible.”
Michael Smith, State of Maine DEP
Sanborn has created regional, state, and nationwide land cover data sets within the U.S. and in many other parts of the world. Successfully mapping over a billion acres of land cover from satellite imagery, Sanborn has been integral in data production for the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), the NOAA Coastal Change Assessment Program (C-CAP), and the USGS GAP project.
Regional Land Cover Product /Technical Specifications
Standard Land Cover Product /Technical Specifications
Enhanced Land Cover Product /Technical Specifications
Accuracy Assessment
On all products, an accuracy assessment is conducted using standard procedures. This is done by randomly selecting a series of points throughout the area and determining whether the classification is correct or incorrect. Sanborn will detail the methodology used at the kickoff meeting.
Conditions
Order acceptance subject to Sanborn approval
Price does not include imagery
Surcharge may apply:
3 band digital CIR
no extra charge
3 band RGB digital
10% price uplift
3 band CIR analog scanned
10% price uplift
3 band RGB analog scanned
15% price uplift
Shipping and handling fees apply.
Deliverables
The dataset will be delivered with an accuracy assessment and FGDC compliant metadata.
The final product will be produced in the .TIFF file format and will be delivered on media appropriate to the size of the file:
CD ROM
File Size < 700 MB
DVD
File Size < 4.7 GB
Hard Drive
File Size > 4.7 GB
Optional delivery method via FTP (file transfer protocol) allows the file to be downloaded without the use of additional media.
For pricing and additional information, or to order Sanborn Land Cover Mapping Products, contact Sanborn customer service by phone at 1.866.SANBORN or send email to information@sanborn.com.
