Allegheny County Land Cover Areas

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:
yes'>The Land Cover dataset demarcates 14 land cover types by area; such as
Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Forest, Agriculture, etc.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-no-proof:yes'></span></p>

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania
Regional Data Center’s open data portal (</span><a href='http://www.wprdc.org'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>http://www.wprdc.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>), this
dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal
(</span><a href='http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>). The
full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s
GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS
portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource”
option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.</span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Category:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Geography</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Organization:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Allegheny County</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Department:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of
Administrative Services</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Temporal
Coverage:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>1994</span></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></b></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Data
Notes:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></b></p>

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Coordinate System:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 
</span>Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot</span></span></p>

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;mso-no-proof:yes'>Development Notes:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The dataset was created by Chester
Environmental through combined image processing and GIS analysis of Landsat TM
imagery of October 2, 1992, existing aerial photography, hardcopy and digital
mapping sources and Census Bureau demographic data. The original dataset was
created in 1993, then updated by Chester in 1994.</span></p>

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;mso-no-proof:yes'>Other: none</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></b></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Related
Document(s):</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Data
Dictionary (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VfUflfki42mpLSkr1R-up_OXGD3mHnv8tqeXf6XS9O0/edit?usp=sharing</span></span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>)</span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Frequency
- Data Change:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>As needed</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Frequency
- Publishing:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>As needed</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Data
Steward Name:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Eli Thomas</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'>Data
Steward Email:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>gishelp@alleghenycounty.us</span></span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif'></span></p>

Tags: _etl, agriculture, commercial, forest, geography, grassland, industrial, malls, open space, pasture, planning, property, residential, strip mine, transportation, vegetation, water
Organization: Allegheny County