Woody Vegetation Change Classifications 1998-2000

Vegetation change products identify annual shifts in perennial woody cover between forest, sparse woody, and non-woody classifications. The dataset covers the period from 1998 to 2000, derived from Landsat imagery at 30-meter resolution. It is produced by Landgate for the Land Monitor program.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in forest to non-woody change classes to quantify deforestation.
• Map transitions from non-woody to sparse woody classifications for reforestation monitoring.
• Track annual vegetation change products to model landscape dynamics over the 1998-2000 period.

Strengths

• Derived from Landsat satellite imagery providing consistent 30-meter ground pixel resolution.
• Covers a defined three-year time range from 1998 to 2000.
• Includes multiple specific change classes such as forest to sparse and non-woody to forest.

Limitations

• Specific sample size, row count, and column details are unknown.
• Data is temporally limited to a short, historical period (1998-2000).
• Access is via service formats (WMS, ArcGIS) which may require specialized GIS tools for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Landgate

Collection Method

Produced annually from vegetation cover datasets based on Landsat imagery.

Time Range

1998-2000

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, though the underlying data covers 1998-2000.

Geography

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