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Northern Plains High Resolution Land Cover

Metadata Updated: September 2, 2025

This image service contains high-resolution land cover data for the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. These data are a digital representation of land cover derived from 1-meter aerial imagery from the USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP.) The year of NAIP used for each state was 2014.Data are intended for use in rural areas and therefore do not include land cover in cities and towns. Land cover classes (tree cover, other land cover, or water) were mapped using an object-based image analysis approach and supervised classification. These data are designed for conducting geospatial analyses and for producing cartographic products. In particular, these data are intended to depict the location of tree cover in the county. The mapping procedures were developed specifically for agricultural landscapes that are dominated by annual crops, rangeland, and pasture and where tree cover is often found in narrow configurations, such as windbreaks and riparian corridors. Because much of the tree cover in agricultural areas of the United States occurs in windbreaks and narrow riparian corridors, many geospatial datasets derived from coarser-resolution satellite data (such as Landsat), do not capture these landscape features. This dataset is intended to address this particular data gap. These data can be downloaded by county at the Forest Service Research Data Archive. Nebraska: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2019-0038 South Dakota: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2022-0068 North Dakota: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2022-0067 A Kansas dataset was also developed using the same methods and is located at: Kansas data download: https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2019-0052 Kansas map service: https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/high-resolution-tree-cover-of-kansas-2015-map-service/explore

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025
Publisher U.S. Forest Service
Maintainer
Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=79b7cdd6042b40899fb998a755f831a0
Data First Published 2020-07-02
Data Last Modified 2025-09-02
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:96
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 674b86bf-ae08-4971-a314-9153c1ac6932
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::northern-plains-high-resolution-land-cover
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 005:059
Progresscode onGoing
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9c88941d2e60c85e62975b8b4cc365a19fcbaeefdfe7db17fb959600f7e59f26
Source Schema Version 1.1
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