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Land Cover, Forested Area, Minnesota, 1990s

This land cover data set was derived from 30-meter resolution Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery. Classification is divided into 15 classes with source imagery dates ranging from September 1991 to August 1996. Both a raster and a vector version are available.

Additional Info

Field Value
dsAccessConst None
dsCurrentRef Date of source imagery (Landsat-5 TM, bands 3, 4, and 5) ranges from September 20, 1991 to August 30, 1996. Data production was conducted during the period of July 1996 to Summer 1998. The image date for each county is listed below:

County _ Image Date:
Aitkin _ 6/13/96
Carlton _ 6/13/96
Cass _ 6/18/95
Cook _ 6/1/94
Crow Wing _ 6/18/95
Hubbard _ 6/18/95
Itasca _ 6/18/95
Koochiching _ 6/18/95
Lake _ 6/1/94
Lake of the Woods _ 8/30/96
Mille Lacs _ 9/20/91
Pine _ 6/13/96
St. Louis _ 6/8/94
Wadena _ 6/18/95
dsMetadataUrl https://resources.gisdata.mn.gov/pub/gdrs/data/pub/us_mn_state_dnr/biota_landcover_landsat_tm_1996/metadata/metadata.html
dsModifiedDate 2022-09-01 02:00:17
dsOriginator Manitoba Remote Sensing Centre and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
dsPurpose Land use planning, natural resource monitoring
gdrsDsGuid {ddfbe5dc-3ae8-4a1a-bfef-364fefc4346b}
spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-95.4, 45.5],[-95.4, 49.4], [-89.5, 49.4], [-89.5, 45.5], [-95.4, 45.5]]]}

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