Plantings for this council have been mapped up to the end of winter 1999. The land cover classes are mutually exclusive and comprise polygon features and linear features. Urban Open Space - sports fields, parklands, etc. Mines, gravel pits and dump sites. Primarily pastoral - exotic pasture, enclosure distinguishes this from extensively managed Tussock Grasslands.
Class includes arable land.
Planted forest - plantation or exotic forest inclusive of recent replanting, e.g. Pinus radiata , Pseudotsuga menziesii, Eucalyptus spp. Shrubs are woody plants e.g. Manuka, Kanuka, Matagouri, Gorse, Broom, Hawthorne, Indigenous forest - forest cover dominated by indigenous tall forest canopy species. An accuracy assessment is currently being undertaken by Forest Research. The results of this assessment will be provided to licenced users of LCDB1 by September 2000. Classification errors identified by users will be corrected and updated data will be provided to licenced users.