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Georgia Land Use Trends (GLUT)
Statewide Land Cover Classification Systems
(thirteen class)
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Class |
Description |
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Beaches, Dunes and Mud |
Open sand, sandbars, sand dunes, mud - natural environmentals as well as exposed sand from dredging and other activities. |
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Open Water |
Lakes, rivers, ponds, ocean, industrial water, aquaculture which contained water at the time of image acquisition. |
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Low Intensity Urban
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Single family dwellings, recreation, cemeteries, playing fields, campus-like institutions, parks, schools. |
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High Intensity Urban |
Multi-family dwellings, commercial/industrial, prisons, speedways, junkyards, confined animal operations. Transportation, roads, railroads, airports and runways. Utility swaths. |
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Clearcut and Sparse |
Recent clearcuts, sparse vegetation, and other early successional areas. |
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Quarries, Strip Mines and Rock Outcrops |
Exposed rock and soil from industrial uses, gravel pits, landfills. Rock outcrops, mountain tops, barren land. |
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Deciduous Forest |
Forest composed of at least 75% deciduous trees in the canopy, deciduous woodland. |
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Evergreen Forest |
Evergreen forest, at least 75% evergreen trees, managed pine plantations, evergreen woodland. |
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Mixed Forest |
Mixed deciduous/coniferous canopies, mixed woodland, natural vegetation within the fall line and coastal plain ecoregions, mixed shrub/scrub vegetation. |
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Row Crops and Pastures |
Row crops, orchards, vineyards, groves, horticultural businesses. Pasture, non-tilled grasses. |
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Forested Wetland |
Cypress gum, evergreen wetland, deciduous wetland, depressional wetlands, and shrub wetlands. |
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Non-forested Wetland (salt/brackish) |
Salt marsh, brackish. |
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Non-forested Wetland (freshwater) |
Freshwater marsh. |
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