FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2007

TITLE: STATEWIDE WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT LAND USE 1990

Geodataset Name:       LU90
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         672532
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains 1990 land use/cover features categorized according to the Florida Land Use and Cover Classification System (FLUCCS). The features were photointerpreted from 1:24,000 USGS color infrared (CIR) digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles (DOQQs).
DATA SOURCE(S):                    St. John's River Water Management District (SJRWMD), Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD)
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     24,000
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      20070520
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 See Following Extent Information Below:

This dataset includes land use for the entirety the following counties: 
Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, 
DeSoto, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Glades, Hamilton, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, 
Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lafayette, Lake, Lee, Levy, Madison, 
Manatee, Marion, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Nassau, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, 
Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, 
Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, Volusia.


This dataset includes land use for only parts of the following county: 
Jefferson

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: LU90.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
OBJECTID
4 OID ---
FLUCCS
4 Number ---
SOURCE
6 String ---
OTHER
6 String ---
ACRES
19 Number 11
LEVEL1
50 String ---
LEVEL2
75 String ---
DESCRIPT
125 String ---
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date ---
AUTOID
9 Number ---
SHAPE
4 Geometry ---
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double ---
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

FLUCCS The land use and land cover classification code as defined in the Florida DOT's FLUCCS classification system. The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District layer
SWFWMD = FLUCCSCODE

SFWMD = LUCODE

SJRWMD = LUCODE


SOURCE Water Management District of Origin

OTHER The following represents the original field from the source Water Management District: layer:
SWFWMD = LCCODE

SFWMD = OTHER

SJRWMD = LCCODE


ACRES The area in acres of the land use polygon.

LEVEL1 Level 1 land use description.

LEVEL2 Level 2 land use description.

DESCRIPT FGDL item based on level 3 land use from the Florida DOT's FLUCCS classification system.

FGDLAQDATE The Date FGDL acquired the date from the Source(s).

AUTOID GeoPlan Center feature identification number.

SHAPE Feature geometry.

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters

1000    Urban and Built-up
1100    Residential, low density
1120    Mobile home units, low density
1200    Residential, medium density
1220    Mobile home units, medium density
1300    Residential, high density
1320    Mobile home units, high density
1400    Commercial and services
1420    Junk Yards
1440    Cultural and entertainment
1460    Tourist services
1480    Cemeteries
1500    Industrial
1560    Other Heavy Industrial
1600    Extractive
1610    Strip Mines
1620    Sand and gravel pits
1630    Rock quarries
1640    Oil and gas fields
1660    Holding ponds
1700    Institutional
1710    Educational facilities
1720    Religious
1730    Military
1740    Medical and Health care
1750    Governmental
1760    Correctional
1790    Institutional under construction
1800    Recreational
1810    Swimming beach
1820    Golf Courses
1830    Race Tracks
1840    marinas and fish camps
1850    Parks and zoos
1860    Community recreational facilities
1870    Stadiums
1880    Historic sites
1890    Other recreational
1900    Open land (Urban)
2000    Agriculture
2100    Cropland and pastureland
2200    Tree crops
2300    Feeding operations
2400    Nurseries and vineyards
2500    Specialty farms
2540    Aquaculture
2600    Other open land (Rural)
3000    Rangeland
3200    Shrub and brush land
3220    Coastal scrub
3300    Mixed rangeland
4000    Upland Forests
4100    Upland coniferous forests
4130    Sand pines
4200    Upland hardwood forests
4340    Mixed coniferous/hardwood
4350    Dead trees
4400    Tree plantations
4410    Coniferous plantations
4430    Forest regeneration areas
5000    Water
5100    Streams and waterways
5200    Lakes
5300    Reservoirs
5400    Bays and estuaries
5410    Embayment opening directly into the Gulf
5420    Embayment not opening directly into the Gulf
5600    Slough waters
5700    Oceans, Seas, and Gulf's
6000    Wetlands
6100    Wetland hardwood forests
6110    Bay swamps
6120    Mangrove swamps
6130    Gum swamps
6150    Stream and lake swamps
6160    Inland ponds and sloughs
6200    Wetland coniferous forests
6210    Cypress
6230    Atlantic cedar
6300    Wetland forested mixed
6400    Vegetated non-forested wetlands
6410    Freshwater marshes
6420    Saltwater marshes
6440    Emergent aquatic vegetation
6500    Non-vegetated
6510    Tidal flats
6530    Intermittent ponds
6900    Wetland shrub
7000    Barren land
7100    Beaches
7200    Sand other than beaches
7300    Exposed rocks
7400    Disturbed land
7420    Borrow areas
7450    Burned areas
7500    Riverine sandbars
8000    Transportation, communications, and utilities
8100    Transportation
8110    Airports
8120    Railroads
8140    Roads and highways
8150    Port facilities
8160    Canals and docks
8170    Oil, water, or gas transmission lines
8180    Auto parking facilities
8200    Communications
8210    Transmissions towers
8220    Communication facilities
8300    Utilities
8310    Electrical power facilities
8320    Electrical power transmission lines
8330    Water supply plants
8340    Sewage treatment
8350    Solid waste disposal

*** SJRWMD - LUCODE VS. LCCODE ***
Each feature is required to have two attributes, one emphasizing land 
cover (LCCODE) and the second land use (LUCODE).  In most cases, these two 
values are the same.  They differ in a minority of cases where separate cover and 
use values are required in order to adequately describe the mapping unit. The 
result is a map with dual codes. The LCCODE attribute can be used (mapped, 
queried, etc.) alone for a land cover emphasis; LUCODE can be used alone for a 
land use emphasis; or both can be used together.  

Any polygon described by the following LUCODE values must be assigned a 
different LCCODE value:
       1180 - Rural residential (2-5 acres per dwelling unit)
       1650 - Reclaimed mining lands
       1670 - Abandoned mining lands
       1900 - Open land (urban) 
       1920 - Inactive land with street pattern but no structures (urban)
       2600 - Other open lands (rural)

Any polygon described by the following LCCODE values must be assigned a 
different LUCODE value:
       8340  - Wastewater treatment	
       8360 - Other treatment ponds (non-sewage). 
                   In this case, the LUCODE must be populated with the 
                   associated land use or purpose of the ponds, e.g. 
                   dairy (2520) or cattle feeding operation (2310). 

Polygons described by the following LUCODEs may at the discretion of the 
photointerpreter have differing values for LUCODE and LCCODE:
       1700 - Institutional
       1730 - Military
       1750 - Governmental (Kennedy Space Center only)
       1800 - Recreational
       1850 - Parks and zoos
       2240 - Abandoned tree crops
       2310 - Cattle feeding operations
       2320 - Poultry feeding operations
       2500 - Specialty farms
       2510 - Horse farms
       2520 - Dairies
       8350 - Solid waste disposal
USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology.
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge.

There was some overlap in the three land use layers before merging them 
together. Any place there was overlap the following hierarchy was used in this
order: SWFWMD, SJRWMD, SFWMD.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
In the past, FGDL distributed land use by County by Water Management District.
For the 2007 version of FGDL, the four districts that have 1990 land use data 
have been merged together. These four districts (SWFWMD,  
SJRWMD, SRWMD, SFWMD) make up the layer LU90. This layer has been 
broken up by county for easy distribution via ftp or cd-rom.

Because there is no data from NWFWMD, there are several counties
in the panhandle that don't have data for this layer. In these cases you will need
to get LU95. In addition, because WMD boundaries do not follow county
boundaries, there are some counties in the north eastern part of the state that
have partial data.

No data available:
Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, 
Jefferson (western half), Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, 
Walton, & Washington

Partial Coverage:
Jefferson

Water Management District Jurisdictions
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/watman/

- Northwest Florida WMD
  Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, 
  Jackson, Jefferson (western half), Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, 
  Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, & Washington

- Suwannee River WMD  
  Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, 
  Taylor, Union and portions of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Jefferson 
  & Levy

- St. Johns River WMD  
  Brevard, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Nassau, Seminole, 
  St. Johns, Volusia, and portions of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, 
  Lake, Marion, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola & Putnam

- Southwest Florida WMD  
  Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, 
  Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, Sumter, and portions of Charlotte, 
  Highlands, Lake, Levy, Marion & Polk

- South Florida WMD
  Broward, Collier, Dade, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Monroe, 
  Palm Beach, St. Lucie, and portions of Charlotte, Highlands, 
  Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola & Polk


St. John's Water Management District User Notes:

All IRL data is classified to level three. The non-IRL data is a mixture 
of level two, three, and four. The item definitions are identical, but 
there are differences in the land use coding. The non-IRL data set 
follows the modified Florida Land Use Cover Classification Scheme (FLUCCS).

The IRL data follows this as well, but there are codes that have been 
added which are not documented on the modified FLUCCS system. 
There are some coding errors in that some codes don't match any 
system and are miscodes. A plan to remedy this is under investigation. 
The total area of miscodes is about 0.001% of the district. Some quads 
were partially interpreted by both contractors. This happened where 
the IRL Basin boundary ran through a quad. These quads have been 
merged together. Because of the differences in photo interpretation, 
the polygons along the contractor boundary may not match well. A 
copy of the coding scheme is available through the Division of GIS. 
Quads in the southwest corner of Lake county have land use past 
the district boundary to the county boundary. These are named 
lulake <quad#>. A standard lu coverage that is clipped to the district 
boundary also exists for these quads.

The minimum mapping units for this project are:
0.5 acres for wetlands
2.0 acres for land use categories

Suwannee River Water Management District User Notes:

This land use, vegetation cover, and land form classification system 
in arranged in hierarchical levels with each level containing land 
information of increasing specificity. The various categories and 
subcategories listed and defined herein reflect the types of data and 
information which can be extracted from aerial photography of various 
type (panchromatic, natural color, or false-color infrared) and scales 
(large, medium, and small) and from the current generation of airborne 
and satellite multispectral imaging systems. Color, shade, shape, size, 
texture, shadows, context, and, in the case of non-photographic imagery, 
multispectral and multitemporal characteristics are some of the features used 
to implement land use/cover classification. In this project, a combination of 
data sources were used to delineate and classify land cover. The principal 
data source was TM. Additional data sources were: SPOT Panchromatic 
and Multispectral Imagery, United States (US) Department of Agriculture 
National High Altitude Photography--1983-1984 (NHAP), US Geological 
Survey 7.5 minute Quadrangle Maps, US Fish and Wildlife Service National 
Wetlands Inventory Maps, and site visits. This enabled ERDAS to classify 
categories for all the Levels that are described below.

LEVEL I

This level of classification is very general in nature. It can be obtained 
from remote sensing satellite imagery with supplemental information. 
Level I would normally be used for very large areas, statewide or larger, 
mapped typically at a scale of 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000. At these scales, 
one inch equals sixteen miles (one centimeter per ten kilometers) and one 
inch equals eight miles (one centimeter per five kilometers), respectively.

LEVEL II

This level of classification is more specific than level I. Data for Level II 
classification are normally obtained from high altitude imagery 
(40,000 to 60,000 feet) supplemented by satellite imagery and other materials, 
such as topographic maps. Mapping typically might be at a scale of 1:100,000 
or one inch equals 8,333 feet ( one centimeter per one kilometer).

LEVEL III

This level of classification is usually delineated from medium altitude 
photography flown between 10,000 and 40,000 feet. The mapping scale 
typically is 1:24,000 or one inch equals 2,000 feet (one centimeter per 0.24 kilometer).

LEVEL IV

This (The most specific) level of classification is delineated from low 
altitude photography flown below 10,000 feet. In comparison with the 
above mentioned levels, Level IV typically might be mapped at a scale of 
1:6,000 or one inch equals 500 feet (one centimeter per 0.06 kilometer).
It is important for the reader to realize that as the scale of the imagery increases, 
not only will the image analyst be able to make more specific assignments of 
ground features to particular land use/cover classes, but the increased scale 
will allow for the break out of smaller features. At Levels III and IV, relatively 
small ground areas form a significant portion of an image. For certain classes 
of ground cover, this may present difficulties. For example, on 1":500' images 
groups of three or four oak trees are easily delineated. While in and of 
themselves they do not form a forest, that particular polygon will still be 
assigned to the Upland Forest class. An even more extreme case is the 
delineation of just a few hundred square feet of herbaceous ground cover. 
While such an area clearly cannot support cattle, it is still assigned to the 
Rangeland classification. While this shortcoming of the classification system 
does not cause any real conceptual problems, we feel that the reader should 
be advised of these facts.

The first four classes, being of a land use nature, required special attention. 
Residential and commercial areas were first extracted from the imagery and 
underwent a specialized classification (Kauth-Thomas transformation and 
band rationing). Then these areas were edited using NHAP. Lake City was 
classified and edited using SPOT Panchromatic and Multispectral Imagery 
(May 2, 1988). Industrial and extractive sites were digitized directly from the 
TM imagery, using previous knowledge of the sites and NHAP as a guide. 
Transportation corridors (4-lane or greater roads) were digitized interactively 
on the Landsat imagery on the color monitor. The remainder of the landcover 
classes were digitally classified from the TM and edited using NHAP. The 
NHAP averaged five years older than the TM, 30 edits based on photo 
interpretation had to be done with this in mind.

South Florida Water Management District User Notes:

LAND USE / LAND COVER - 1988
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br-lu88 	- Broward County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
ch-lu88 	- Charlotte County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
ch-lu88d 	- Charlotte County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover (inside SFWMD) 
co-lu88 	- Collier County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
da-lu88 	- Dade County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
gl-lu88 	- Glades County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
he-lu88 	- Hendry County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
hi-lu88 	- Highlands County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
hi-lu88d 	- Highlands County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover (inside SFWMD)
le-lu88 	- Lee County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
ma-lu88 	- Martin County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
mo-lu88 	- Monroe County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
ok-lu88 	- Okeechobee County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
ok-lu88d 	- Okeechobee County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover (inside SFWMD)
or-lu88d 	- Orange County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover (inside SFWMD)
os-lu88 	- Osceola County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
os-lu88d 	- Osceola County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover (inside SFWMD)
pb-lu88 	- Palm Beach County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
po-lu88d 	- Polk County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover
sl-lu88 	- St. Lucie County 1988 Land Use / Land Cover

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Note: The SFWMD LU/LC classification system was developed for the 
      SFWMD Land Use / Land Cover 1988 GIS database.  

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Levels of Classification (examples)

	Level I - U,A,F,W,H,R
	Level II - UR,AM,FM,WF,H,RM
	Level III - URSF,AMCT,FMMC



editor: Michael Rose, 4.12.96

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Michael Rose, Senior Geographer           407.687.6342 voice
South Florida Water Management District   407.687.6442 fax
3301 Gun Club Road                       
West Palm Beach, FL, USA  33416-4680
michael.rose@sfwmd.gov            www.dep.state.fl.us/~sfwmd
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         located at 26 40 32 NORTH  80 05 37 WEST
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           South Florida Water Management District
   
         LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION CODE

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Note: The SFWMD LU/LC classification system was developed for
      the SFWMD Land Use / Land Cover 1988 GIS database.

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LI   LII        LIII   <- Levels of Classification


Urban or Built-up land consists of areas of intensive use, with much of 
the land covered by structures.  Included in this category are cities, 
towns, villages, strip developments along highways, and such areas as 
those occupied by mills, shopping centers, industrial and commercial 
complexes, and institutions that may, in some instances, be isolated 
from urban areas.

As development progresses, small blocks of land of less intensive or 
nonconforming use may be isolated in the midst of built-up areas and 
will generally be included in this category.  Agricultural, forest, or 
water areas on the fringe of urban and built-up areas will not be 
included except where they are part of low-density urban development.

The Urban or Built-up category takes precedence over others when the 
criteria for more than one category are met.  For example, residential 
areas that have sufficient tree cover to meet Forested Upland criteria 
will still be classified as Residential in the Urban or Built-Up category.

 (U) Urban and built-up land

     (UR) Residential

               (URSL)    Single-family, Low Density (under 2 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URSM)    Single-family, Medium Density (2 to 5 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URSH)    Single-family, High Density (over 5 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URMF)    Multi-family building 
               (URMH)    Mobile homes 

     (UC) Commercial and Services

               (UCPL)    Parking lot 
               (UCSC)    Shopping center 
               (UCSS)    Sales and services 
               (UCCE)    Cultural and Entertainment 
               (UCMC)    Marine commercial (Marinas) 
               (UCHM)    Hotel-Motel 

     (UI) Industrial
           
               (UIJK)    Junkyard
               (UILT)    Other light industrial
               (UIHV)    Other heavy industrial

     (US) Institutional

               (USED)    Educational 
               (USMD)    Medical 
               (USRL)    Religious 
               (USMF)    Military 
               (USCF)    Correctional 
               (USGF)    Governmental (other than military or correctional) 
               (USSS)    Social services (Elks, Moose, Eagles)

     (UT) Transportation

               (UTAP)    Airports 
               (UTAG)    Small grass airports 
               (UTRR)    Railroad yards and terminals 
               (UTPF)    Port facilities 
               (UTEP)    Electrical power facilities 
               (UTTL)    Major transmission lines 
               (UTHW)    Major highway and rights-of-way
               (UTWS)    Water supply plants 
               (UTSP)    Sewerage treatment plants 
               (UTSW)    Solid waste disposal 
               (UTRS)    Antenna arrays 
               (UTOG)    Oil and gas storage 

     (UO) Open and others

               (UORC)    Recreational facilities 
               (UOGC)    Golf courses 
               (UOPK)    Parks 
               (UOCM)    Cemeteries 
               (UORV)    Recreational vehicle parks 
               (UOUD)    Open under development 
               (UOUN)    Open and undeveloped within urban area 


Agricultural land may be defined as those lands which are cultivated to 
produce crops and livestock.  The sub-categories of Agriculture are: 
Cropland, Pastureland, Orchards, Groves (except citrus), Vineyards, 
Nurseries, Ornamental Horticulture Areas, Citrus Groves, Confined 
Feeding Operations, Specialty Farms and Other Agriculture.

(A) Agriculture

     (AC) Cropland

               (ACSC)    Sugar cane 
               (ACTC)    Truck crops 
               (ACRF)    Rice fields 

     (AP) Pasture   

               (APIM)    Improved pasture 
               (APUN)    Unimproved pasture 

     (AM) Groves, Ornamentals, Nurseries, Tropical fruits

               (AMCT)    Citrus 
               (AMTF)    Tropical fruits 
               (AMSF)    Sod farms 
               (AMOR)    Ornamentals 

     (AF) Confined feeding operations
                                     
               (AFFL)    Cattle feed lots 
               (AFDF)    Dairy farms 
               (AFFF)    Fish farms 
               (AFHT)    Horse training and stables 
               (AFPY)    Poultry
 

Historically, Rangeland has been defined as land where the potential 
natural vegetation is predominantly grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, or 
shrubs, and is capable of being grazed.  Management practices may include 
brush control, regulation of grazing intensity, and season of use. If 
revegetated to improve the forage cover, it is managed like native 
vegetation.  Generally this land is not fertilized, cultivated, or irrigated.

The definition of Rangeland used in the CONSERVATION NEEDS INVENTORY by 
the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior is used in this 
classification scheme and describes the natural potential (climax) plant 
cover as being composed of principally native grasses, forbs and shrubs 
valuable for forage.  This category includes Grassland, Shrub and 
Brushland, and Mixed Rangeland.

(R) Rangeland

     (RG) Grassland
 
     (RS) Scrub and brushland

               (RSPP)   Palmetto prairies 
               (RSSB)   Brushland
 


Forestland includes uplands, basically the drier areas, which have a tree 
crown density (crown closure of 10 percent or more), and are dominated by 
trees and other woody vegetation.  Lands from which trees have been removed 
to less than 10 percent crown closure, but which have not been developed for 
other use, are also included in this category. For example, lands on which 
there are rotation cycles, involving clear-cutting and block planting, are 
part of the forested uplands category.

Since most naturally seeded forestlands are composed of a mixture of species, 
for purposes of classification a minimum of 66 2/3 percent stand dominance 
(by crown area measurement) of one species or species groups is necessary 
for inclusion into separate categories. Less than 66 2/3 percent stand 
dominance of one species or species groups is considered to be a mixed 
category. It should be noted that classification is based on overstory 
species composition, as interpreted from aerial photography.  Forested 
uplands are classified as follows:

(F) Forested uplands

     (FE) Coniferous

               (FEPF)    Pine flatwoods 
               (FESP)    Sand pine scrub 
               (FECF)    Commercial forest (pine)
 
     (FO) Non-coniferous

               (FOAP)    Australian pine 
               (FOBP)    Brazilian pepper 
               (FOPA)    Palms 
               (FOSO)    Scrub oak 
               (FOOK)    Oak 
               (FOCF)    Commercial forest 

     (FM) Mixed forested

               (FMTW)    Temperate hardwoods 
               (FMCM)    Cabbage palms/Melaleuca 
               (FMCO)    Cabbage palms/Oaks 
               (FMPM)    Pine/Melaleuca 
               (FMPO)    Pine/Oak 
               (FMTH)    Tropical hammocks 
               (FMOF)    Old fields forested 
               (FMCD)    Coastal dunes 
               (FMPC)    Pine/Cabbage palms



Wetlands are those areas where the water table is at, near, or above the 
land surface for a significant part of most years. The hydrologic regime 
is such that aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation usually is established, 
although alluvial and tidal flats may be nonvegetated. Wetlands are 
frequently associated with topographic lows. Examples of wetlands include 
marshes, mudflats, emergent vegetation areas, and swamps. Shallow water 
areas with submerged aquatic vegetation are classed as Water and are not 
included in the Wetlands category.

Extensive parts of some river floodplains qualify as Wetlands. These do not 
include agricultural land where seasonal wetness or short-term flooding may 
provide an important component of the total annual soil moisture necessary 
for crop production.  But, uncultivated wetlands yielding products such as 
wood, or grazed by livestock, are retained in the Wetlands category.

Wetlands areas drained for any purpose belong to other land use categories, 
whether they be Agriculture, Rangeland, or Forested. When the drainage is 
discontinued and such use ceases, classification reverts to Wetlands after 
characteristic vegetation is reestablished. Wetlands managed for wildlife 
purposes may show short- term changes in vegetation type and wetness 
condition as different management practices are used, but are properly 
classified Wetlands.
 
 (W) Wetlands

     (WF) Forested fresh

               (WFCM)    Cypress/Melaleuca 
               (WFCY)    Cypress 
               (WFWL)    Willow 
               (WFME)    Melaleuca 
               (WFSB)    Scrub and brushland 
               (WFMX)    Mixed forested 

     (WN) Non-forested fresh

               (WNSG)    Sawgrass 
               (WNCT)    Cattail
               (WNBR)    Bullrush 
               (WNWC)    Wire cordgrass 
               (WNAG)    Mixed aquatic grass 
               (WNWL)    Sloughs
 
     (WS) Forested salt

               (WSRM)    Red mangrove 
               (WSBW)    Black and White mangrove 

     (WM) Non-forested salt 

     (WX) Mixed forested and non-forested fresh

               (WXPP)    Pine and wet prairies 
               (WXCP)    Cypress domes and wet prairies 
               (WXHM)    Hardwood marsh 



The delineation of water areas depends on the scale and resolution 
characteristics of the remote-sensor photography used for interpretation. 
One definition of water bodies, provided by the Bureau of Census, includes 
all areas within the land mass of the United States that are predominantly 
or persistently water covered, provided that, if linear, they are at least 
1/8 mile (660 feet or 200 meters) wide, and if extended, cover at least 
40 acres (16 hectares).

Defining water boundaries at Level III, minimum size has been established 
to less than 10 acres. In some instances, water bodies of one acre will 
be plotted and identified. Water bodies or those portions of the water 
body have emergent vegetation are placed in the Wetland category.
     
(H) Water 



Barren land has very little or no vegetation and limited ability to support 
life. In general, it is an area with only soil, sand or rocks. Vegetation, 
if present is very widely spaced and scrubby. However, land also may be 
temporarily barren due to man's activities. Generally, this land is included 
in other land use categories. Vast areas of agricultural land are temporarily 
without vegetative cover due to tillage practices, and areas of extractive 
and industrial land use have dumps for wastes and tailings. Barren Land 
categories are beaches (areas exhibiting little or no evidence of human 
encroachment), Extractive operations, Spoil areas, and Levees.
 
(B)  Barren land

     (BB) Beaches 
     (BP) Extractive 
             (strip mines, quarries, and
              gravel pits) 
     (BS) Spoil areas 
     (BL) Levees 
      

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* Documentation of major codes from "LAND USE, COVER AND FORMS CLASSIFICATION 
  SYSTEM, A TECHNICAL MANUAL", Department of Transportation, State Topographic 
  Office Remote Sensing Center, Kuyper, Becker and Shopmyer, February 1981

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Note: The SFWMD LU/LC classification system was developed for
      the SFWMD Land Use / Land Cover 1988 GIS database.

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Author: Jimmy Kramp, 3.17.89
Revised: Jimmy Kramp, {ongoing process}
Editor: Michael Rose, 4.1.96

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           South Florida Water Management District

         LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION CODE


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Note: The SFWMD LU/LC classification system was developed for
      the SFWMD Land Use / Land Cover 1988 GIS database.  

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LI   LII        LIII   <- Levels of Classification

(U) Urban and built-up land

     (UR) Residential

               (URSL)    Single-family, Low Density (under 2 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URSM)    Single-family, Medium Density (2 to 5 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URSH)    Single-family, High Density (over 5 D.U./gross acre) 
               (URMF)    Multi-family building 
               (URMH)    Mobile homes 

     (UC) Commercial and Services

               (UCPL)    Parking lot 
               (UCSC)    Shopping center 
               (UCSS)    Sales and services 
               (UCCE)    Cultural and Entertainment 
               (UCMC)    Marine commercial (Marinas) 
               (UCHM)    Hotel-Motel 

     (UI) Industrial
           
               (UIJK)    Junkyard
               (UILT)    Other light industrial
               (UIHV)    Other heavy industrial

     (US) Institutional

               (USED)    Educational 
               (USMD)    Medical 
               (USRL)    Religious 
               (USMF)    Military 
               (USCF)    Correctional 
               (USGF)    Governmental (other than military or correctional) 
               (USSS)    Social services (Elks, Moose, Eagles)

     (UT) Transportation

               (UTAP)    Airports 
               (UTAG)    Small grass airports 
               (UTRR)    Railroad yards and terminals 
               (UTPF)    Port facilities 
               (UTEP)    Electrical power facilities 
               (UTTL)    Major transmission lines 
               (UTHW)    Major highway and rights-of-way
               (UTWS)    Water supply plants 
               (UTSP)    Sewerage treatment plants 
               (UTSW)    Solid waste disposal 
               (UTRS)    Antenna arrays 
               (UTOG)    Oil and gas storage 

     (UO) Open and others

               (UORC)    Recreational facilities 
               (UOGC)    Golf courses 
               (UOPK)    Parks 
               (UOCM)    Cemeteries 
               (UORV)    Recreational vehicle parks 
               (UOUD)    Open under development 
               (UOUN)    Open and undeveloped within urban area 

(A) Agriculture

     (AC) Cropland

               (ACSC)    Sugar cane 
               (ACTC)    Truck crops 
               (ACRF)    Rice fields 

     (AP) Pasture   

               (APIM)    Improved pasture 
               (APUN)    Unimproved pasture 

     (AM) Groves, Ornamentals, Nurseries, Tropical fruits

               (AMCT)    Citrus 
               (AMTF)    Tropical fruits 
               (AMSF)    Sod farms 
               (AMOR)    Ornamentals 

     (AF) Confined feeding operations
                                     
               (AFFL)    Cattle feed lots 
               (AFDF)    Dairy farms 
               (AFFF)    Fish farms 
               (AFHT)    Horse training and stables 
               (AFPY)    Poultry
 
(R) Rangeland

     (RG) Grassland
 
     (RS) Scrub and brushland

               (RSPP)   Palmetto prairies 
               (RSSB)   Brushland
 
(F) Forested uplands

     (FE) Coniferous

               (FEPF)    Pine flatwoods 
               (FESP)    Sand pine scrub 
               (FECF)    Commercial forest (pine)
 
     (FO) Non-coniferous

               (FOAP)    Australian pine 
               (FOBP)    Brazilian pepper 
               (FOPA)    Palms 
               (FOSO)    Scrub oak 
               (FOOK)    Oak 
               (FOCF)    Commercial forest 

     (FM) Mixed forested

               (FMTW)    Temperate hardwoods 
               (FMCM)    Cabbage palms/Melaleuca 
               (FMCO)    Cabbage palms/Oaks 
               (FMPM)    Pine/Melaleuca 
               (FMPO)    Pine/Oak 
               (FMTH)    Tropical hammocks 
               (FMOF)    Old fields forested 
               (FMCD)    Coastal dunes 
               (FMPC)    Pine/Cabbage palms

 (W) Wetlands

     (WF) Forested fresh

               (WFCM)    Cypress/Melaleuca 
               (WFCY)    Cypress 
               (WFWL)    Willow 
               (WFME)    Melaleuca 
               (WFSB)    Scrub and brushland 
               (WFMX)    Mixed forested 

     (WN) Non-forested fresh

               (WNSG)    Sawgrass 
               (WNCT)    Cattail
               (WNBR)    Bullrush 
               (WNWC)    Wire cordgrass 
               (WNAG)    Mixed aquatic grass 
               (WNWL)    Sloughs
 
     (WS) Forested salt

               (WSRM)    Red mangrove 
               (WSBW)    Black and White mangrove 

     (WM) Non-forested salt 

     (WX) Mixed forested and non-forested fresh

               (WXPP)    Pine and wet prairies 
               (WXCP)    Cypress domes and wet prairies 
               (WXHM)    Hardwood marsh 

(H) Water 

(B)  Barren land

     (BB) Beaches 
     (BP) Extractive (strip mines, quarries, and gravel pits) 
     (BS) Spoil areas 
     (BL) Levees 


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Note: The SFWMD LU/LC classification system was developed for
      the SFWMD Land Use / Land Cover 1988 GIS database.  

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Author: Jimmy Kramp, 3.17.89
Revised: Jimmy Kramp, {ongoing process}
Editor: Michael Rose, 4.1.96

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The term "Land cover" describes the features, predominantly vegetation, 
that exist over most of the unit of area delineated at the time of interpretation. 
These features are in most cases natural vegetation or lithographic features, 
but may also be established and maintained artificially, as in the case of 
pasture lands, pine plantations, or lagoons. The term "Land use" describes 
the activities, management, or cultural importance of a given area. The use 
may extend over most of the area and infer physical features (e.g. cemetery), 
or it may be based on an abstract property, such as ownership (e.g. institutional). 
A guide to using the District's classification system is available.

This is a land use/ land cover map of the SFWMD using 1988 USGS 
photography as a source. Parts of Polk and Monroe county are not completed.

For more information about the land cover mapping process at the 
District users should look at the metadata for the 1995 and later versions. 
Additional information about the NAPP source photography can be found at 
USGS internet sites. Users may also contact: The referenced data steward 
for this spatial layer, and associated development staff. The metadata specialist 
and others on staff at GIS Services Division, SFWMD. The contacts and 
resources listed on the District's web site at www.sfwmd.com. The USGS 
compendium of information about the South Florida environment at 
www.sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/index.html. Users can view additional metadata 
details for this and hundreds of other enterprise GIS layers in tabular format by 
going to the GIS data catalog under GIS Services at the district intraweb site.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS 
systems for a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan

THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED
AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING,
MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS.

A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes.
Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
county level.
1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
as property parcel boundaries.
1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
multi-county or regional level.
1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be
considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data
before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been
made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
Water Management Districts:

SWFWMD: www.swfwmd.state.fl.us 

SJRWMD: http://sjr.state.fl.us/index.html

May, Brian. 1993. St. Johns River Water Management District 
Geographic Information System Data Documentation. 146 pp.

Brooks, H.K. Guide to the Physiographic Divisions of Florida. pp. 1-11.

Florida Department of Transportation, State Topographic Bureau, 
Thematic Mapping Section. 1985. 
Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System.

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Southwest Florida Water Management  District (SWFWMD) Process Steps:

Source materials for this coverage include USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles 
at 1:24,000. 1:40,000 color infrared photography was also used for Polk, 
Hardee, Highlands, Desoto and eastern Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota 
and Charlotte counties. 1:24,000 for the remainder of the district.
Process Date: 1990

St. John's Water Management District Water Management District (SJWMD) Process Steps: Most of the land use was photo-interpreted from 1:24,000 black and white aerial photography. Lake County was interpreted from 1:24,000 color infrared photography. The photography was flown between 1986 and 1990. The photo dates vary by county: Alachua: 1988 Baker: 1989 Bradford: 1987 Brevard: 1989 Clay: 1987 Duval: 1988 Flagler: 1989 Indian River: 1988 Lake: 1987 Marion: 1989 Nassau: 1989 Okeechobee: 1986 Orange: 1990 Osceola: 1990 Putnam: 1989 Seminole: 1989 St. John's: 1988 Volusia: 1988 Process Date: 1990
Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) Process Steps: In order to map the district area, three Landsat Thematic Mapper scenes of April 1988 imagery were acquired, which had been georeferenced to the north zone of the Florida state plane coordinate system with a cell size of 80 feet by 80 feet. In referencing the entire district are to this one zone, the SRWMD GIS section avoided splitting the area into two or more zones and producing a discontinuity of the database across the district. The three scenes were mosaiced and then subset to limit the data to the study area and reduce the amount of processing time in all phases of the project. To increase classification accuracy across the rather large study area, the district was divided into six physiographic regions: rich uplands, flatwoods and swamps, Suwannee River Valley, Big Bend Karst, northern peninsula plains and sandhills. These regions were extracted from the Landsat TM scenes for individual processing during landcover classification, after which they were mosaiced back into one database. In order to determine the feasibility of the entire classification, conversion and mapping process, a pilot study was performed. EnviroPlan, Inc., a sub-contractor which did most of the field work, SRWMD and ERDAS personnel met at the district headquarters in Live Oak, Florida to take training signatures, evaluate the signatures and begin the classification process for the pilot study areas. There were two pilot study areas, one at Lake City, Florida and the there at the confluence of the Suwannee and Santa Fe rivers. The pilot locations provided a wide range of landcover types necessary for a proper test of the methodology. Since the methodology for the successful pilot study and the ensuing project covering the entire district were much the same except for improvements made along the way, they are described together. The classification scheme used for the project was based on the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System. In order to extract as much information as possible from channels 1,2,3,4,5 and 7 of the TM imagery, very detailed training sites were examined in the field and documented to the third and, in some cases, the fourth level of the four level classification. The first level of the classification system is composed of eight general landcover classes. The fourth level which has the greatest detail is made up of individual species of cover vegetation. See Section 5 for an in-depth look at the FLUCCS landcover classes. Consolidation of classification process occurred where necessary to maintain accuracy levels, but when possible, the extra detail of levels three and four was kept, surpassing the level two classification specified in the contract. Some of the level two classes required special attention, particularly those which were defined by land use rather than land cover characteristics. Residential and urban commercial areas were first extracted as individual rough polygons. A Kauth-Thomas tassel cap transformation and 4/3 ratio was then performed on each of theses polygonal areas. The brightness channel of the transformation and the 4/3 ratio were placed into a two channel data file on which an unsupervised classification was run. The results of this classification were then classed by checking NHAP color infrared photography. The industrial and extractive classes were compiled through previous knowledge of the sites and from the NHAP photography. Urban classes for Lake City were classified from SPOT Pan and XS imagery with its higher spatial resolution. The three water classes were separated by interactive editing since they ware not spectrally separable. The transportation class, which was limited to highways of four lanes or greater, we digitized directly from the Landsat TM on the color monitor using the ERDAS-ARC/INFO Live-Link. After the initial classification, random classification accuracy test blocks were generated. These three-pixel by three-pixel blocks were stratified according to class prevalence, were checked partial on the ground and partially by helicopter. Thermal print maps detailing the location of each accuracy test block were given to the consultant biologist along with a list of location coordinates for the ground and helicopter field work. During the checks by helicopter, some areas along the Gulf Coast which were obscured by clouds in the imagery were mapped in conjunction with the NHAP color infrared photography. 1:24,000 mylar overlays were made to delineate the clouded areas which needed to be mapped. To bring the full land cover classification to the required 90% overall accuracy, interactive edits were performed using the NHAP photography and the findings of the accuracy tests as references. Once the raster land cover GIS was complete and met accuracy requirements, most of the small "salt and pepper" polygons were removed by performing a majority SCAN using a three by three pixel window. The resulting data was thus smoothed and simplified. Sections were then cut out corresponding to each of the 172 USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle maps which made up the study area. These quads were cut out with overlap at the edges to ensure proper processing of polygons along the quad edges during conversion from a raster GIS to a vector data base. Each of the oversized quads was then processed separately to avoid problems which might occur due to too many arcs per polygon, and to keep files at a more manageable size. The initial step in the raster to vector conversion was GRIDPOLY, and ARC/INFO program which made a polygon vector file with the stair-stepped look of the raster file from which it was converted. This process produces a vector database which is useable at that point. Each polygon is described by a "grid-code" number which corresponds to the class number of that polygon in he ERDAS raster GIS. One of the requirements of the project was to smooth the vectors of the ARC/INFO data base to produce maps with a more conventional hand-drafted look. This was accomplished by generalizing and splicing all arcs within the quad data bases. The drawback to this processing is the interactive edits which must be done to maintain the topology. Another required step which was performed before the completion of the conversion process was the elimination of polygons less than 2.5 acres in size. The exact quad area for each USGS 7.5 minute quad was clipped from the oversize quad coverages. Borders for each USGS 7.5 minute quad were then matched at every intersection along every edge. Transportation, consisting of highways of four lands or greater, which was digitized as ARC/INFO coverages directly from the imagery on the color monitor, was overlaid on the completed vector coverages. The final quad coverages, after being checked at several stages, were plotted on mylar at 1:24,000 scale. Other products were produced during the project. A 1:250,000 color print of the original imagery with channels 4,5, and 3 displayed as red, green and blue, respectively was composed with a legend, scale bar and other annotation. Color slides of the raster landcover were taken for each of the fourteen counties within the district. Process Date: 1990
South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Process Steps: NAPP Aerial Photography was the "source" material used for this map. The land use and land cover features were mapped based on ground condition as observed in the aerial photos. Other sources, such as existing land use maps, SSURGO Soils maps, NWI maps, and USGS Topo maps, were used only as ancillary information. The NAPP aerial photos were interpreted in stereo at some magnification. The resulting linework was digitized using the USGS 7.5' quadrangles as a positional reference. Process Date: 1990
In 2007 GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from 4 of the 5 Water Management District websites: SJRWMD (http://sjr.state.fl.us/index.html) SWFWMD (http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us) SRWMD (http://www.srwmd.state.fl.us/) SFWMD (http://www.sfwmd.gov/site/index.php?id=1) The data was downloaded in shapefile format. - Data from SJRWMD was in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Zone 17, NAD83-90 (HPGN), meters. - Data from SWFWMD was in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Zone 17, NAD83-90, meters. - Data from SFWMD was in NAD 1983 HARN StatePlane Florida East FIPS 0901 Feet. - Data from SRWMD was in NAD 1983 HARN StatePlane Florida North FIPS 0903 Feet. Each dataset was then projected to FGDL Albers HPGN. The shapefiles were then appended into a statewide layer using ArcGIS 9.1. There was some overlap in the land use layers before merging them together. Any place there was overlap the following hierarchy was used in this order: SWFWMD, SJRWMD, SFWMD, SRWMD. The SFWMD Alphabetical Land Use code system style was converted to the FDOT FLUCCS code style. The Land Use descriptions were used as the crosswalk between the two styles. Process Date: 20070520
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:                   ST. JOHN'S RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
Abbr. Name:             SJRWMD
Address:                St. John's River Water Management District
                        P.O. Box 1429
                        Palatka FL 32178-1429
Phone:                  (904) 329-4500
Fax:                    1-800-451-7106
Web site:               http://sjr.state.fl.us/index.html      
Contact Person:         Data Administrator
Name:                   SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
Abbr. Name:             SFWMD
Address:                South Florida Water Management District
                        P.O. Box 24680
                        301 Gun Club Rd
                        West Palm Beach, FL 33416-4680
Phone:                  1-800-662-turn  or  (561) 686-8800
Web site:               http://www.sfwmd.gov         
Contact Person:         
         Phone:         (561) 687- 6718
Name:                   SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 
Abbr.name:              SWFWMD
Address:                2379 Broad Street
                        Brooksville, FL 34609-6899
Phone:                  352-796-7211 
Web site:               www.swfwmd.state.fl.us    
Name:                   SUWANNEE RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 
Abbr.name:              SRWMD
Address:                9225 CR 49
                        Live Oak, FL 32060
Phone:                  904-362-1001 
Web site:               www.srwmd.state.fl.us    
FGDL CONTACT:
Name:                   FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY
Abbr. Name:             FGDL
Address:                Florida Geographic Data Library
                        431 Architecture Building
                        PO Box 115706
                        Gainesville, FL  32611-5706
Web site:               http://www.fgdl.org

Contact FGDL: 

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