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Landcover Data

Landcover in the King County Spatial Data Warehouse
Data Access
Reorganization of KCSDW landcover library
Landcover Data Products

Landcover in KCSDW

The King County Spatial Data Warehouse (KCSDW) stores landcover data representing full-county single-class interpretations and multi-class themes. Generally these interpretations represent spectral classifications of both vegetative and urban landcover types. The data products have been developed through King County contract development as well as made available from external sources.

DataAccess

Not all data may available for release to the public or agencies and cities outside of King County government if it was originally obtained from an external source. Data may be made available, with restrictions, to consultants and other parties operating under contract or other formal agreement with King County.

Landcover Dataset	Vintage	Number of Landcover classes Excel Spreadsheet	Details, incl. resolution
Landsat (TM) landcover classification	2002	17	University of Washington PRISM project, approx. 98 ft
Landsat (TM) landcover classification	2001	11	approx. 84 ft
National Landcover Database Landcover classification	2001	16	USGS, approx. 98 ft
National Landcover Database Impervious Surface Percent	2001	1(percentage)	USGS, approx. 98 ft
National Landcover Database Tree Canopy Percent	2001	1(percentage)	USGS, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Tree Canopy	2001	1(percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Impervious Surface	2001	80(20-100 percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Base Landcover	2001	16	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Multispectral imagery impervious/impacted surface interpretation	2000	2	2 ft west county, 15 ft east county
Coastal Change Analysis Program Landcover Classification	2000	22	NOAA, approx. 98 ft
Landsat landcover classification	1998	7	UW Rapid Landcover Classifcation Method, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Tree Canopy	1996	1(percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Impervious Surface	1996	80(20-100 percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Base Landcover	1996	16	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Landsat landcover classification	1995	16	approx. 82 ft
Coastal Change Analysis Program Landcover Classification	1995	22	NOAA, approx. 98 ft
Landsat landcover classification	1992	21	USGS, approx. 98 ft
Landsat landcover classification	1991	6	UW, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Tree Canopy	1991	1(percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Percent Impervious Surface	1991	80(20-100 percentage)	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis - Base Landcover	1991	16	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn, approx. 98 ft
1970 Landcover updated with 2000 new residential	1970-2000	36	USGS, approx. 328 ft
1970 Landcover updated with 1990 new residential	1970-1990	36	approx. 84 ft
Landsat Impervious Area Growth	1994 - 2001	1	approx. 84 ft
Landsat Wet Area Change	1994 - 2001	3	approx. 98 ft
Landsat Forest Area Loss	1994 - 2001	1	NOAA, approx. 98 ft
Coastal Change Analysis Program Landcover Classification	1995 - 2000	94	NOAA, approx. 98 ft
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis	1991 - 2001	109	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis	1991 - 1996	70	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn
Western Washington Landcover Change Analysis	1996 - 2001	90	WA Dept of Ecology/Sanborn

For data that King County can release, the King County GIS Center, Client Services section, can assist you in selecting the correct data and format for your needs, and in providing a cost-estimate for data preparation and media delivery. The GIS Center can also assist you in contacting the original source or vendor for data that we cannot redistribute.

Reorganization of KCSDW image library

King County has reorganized and restructured its landcover data library in conjunction with centralizing all enterprise raster data. New and migrated landcover and other raster data is being stored in \\gisdw\kclib\plibrary3 under a common suite of tiling schemes and with a consistent naming convention.

For more information:

details about the Plibrary3 raster/image library of the KCSDW
how to access the image and raster data, as well as having access to all libraries of the KCSDW (internal users only)
what you need to do to make your ArcView or ArcGIS software JP2-compliant

Updated October 28, 2007

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