Monitoring Land Cover Changes in California: South Coast Project Area. California Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring Program.

摘要

This report summarizes vegetation changes between 1992 and 1997 for the South Coast project area. The area covers portions of Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The project area also completely encompasses the Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino National Forests. The California Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring Program (LCMMP) uses Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery to map vegetation and derive land cover change (losses and gains) within five-year time periods. Cause of land cover change is also determined by experts on the ground and with ancillary data layers. Summary tables provide estimates of land cover change by lifeform type, Wildlife Habitat Relationships System (WHR) type, ownership, CALVEG type (Forest Service Ownership) and cause.