Airvideo Ground Truthing of the Land Cover Types used for the Colorado Gap Analysis Project


Airvideography was flown for the Colorado Gap Analysis Accuracy Assessment during Fall 1996 and Spring/Summer 1997(see flight line map for dates).

Click on the Land Cover Type Code to view a distribution map for that type. Click on "Click here" under Site Photos to view airvideography photos and oblique site photos for the land cover type.
 
 

COGap Land Cover Code Land Cover Type Site ID Site Photos Site Notes
11001 Urban   Click here  
    49193    
21001 Dry Land Crops   Click here  
    15824   Site is agriculture with no sign of irrigation equipment, but no real way to tell if irrigated or not.
    15792   Site is agriculture with no visible irrigation equipment, but otherwise impossible to distinguish from irrigation agriculture could be either
21002 Irrigated Crops   Click here  
    15715   Center pivot irrigation.
    48565   Photo of site looking South. Irrigated fields.
    48561   Hayfields near Hygiene, CO.
    48664   Corn field near Diagonal Hwy, close to Boulder, CO.
31020 Mid Grass Prairie   Click here  
    48919   Looking South across homogeneous mixed grassland. Area contains some yucca.
    44697   Site includes mid-grass, fringe sage, some rabbitbrush. v31020oc.tif close view of site.
    16837    
    44698   also v31020oc.tif
31030 Short Grass Prairie   Click here  
    15134   Homogeneous short grass prairie with yucca, rabbitbrush, opuntra. Also buffalo grass.
    15136   Site is identical to ID#15134. Yucca, rabbitbrush, opuntra, buffalo grass.
    17911    
31040 Foothills and Mountain Grassland   Click here  
    32635   General area included foothills grass. Shrubs in this zoom are Mtn. Big Sagebrush. Matrix is foothills grass. South of Cimmaron, CO in Uncompagre NF.
    32533   Site is close to ID#32635. South of Cimmaron, CO in Uncompagre NF. Foothills grass with Mtn. Big Sage.
    32535   Foreground is lush grass wetland in swale. Background is foothills grass with juniper & oak. Site near ID#32635 & 32533
32002 Xeric Upland Shrub   Click here  
    49323   General site photo. Mtn. Mahogany on ridge. See also v32002ob.tif
    49323   Mtn. Mahogany. See also v32002ob.tif
    49321   See also v32002ob.tif
    44939   Mtn. Mahogany on hillside.
32003 Deciduous Oak   Click here  
32006 Mountain Big Sagebrush   Click here  
    27933   Area is Mtn. Big Sage with a few juniper.
    28360   NW. Colorado. See also v32006oc.tif.
    28361   NW. Colorado. See also v32006oc.tif.
    32448   Site is in West-Central CO. Probably Mtn. Big Sage but could be Basin Big Sage.
32007 Wyoming Big Sagebrush   Click here  
    28407    
    28408   Shrubs in distance are WY Big Sage, Mtn. Big Sage, also present: cushion plants and bare soil.
    28283   Homogeneous WY Big Sage.
    28086    
32009 Big Sagebrush   Click here  
        All Basin Big Sage.
    32445   Site is near Cimmaron, CO off of highway 50. Basin Big Sage on hillside in background. Cottonwood riparian in foreground.
32012 Greasewood Fans and Flats   Click here  
    46506    
    46251   Homogeneous greasewood in San Luis Basin.
    46427    
32013 Sand Dune Shrub Complex   Click here  
    10763   Shrubs are approximately equal mis of Sand Sage & Yucca.
    10637   Shrubs are all Sand Sage.
    12057   Grass & Sand Sage on dunes.
    12108   Sand Sage & General Area.
    17663   Sand Sage.
32030 Disturbed Shrub   Click here  
    27985   Old oil drilling area that is re-growing to shrub.
41001 Aspen   Click here  
    44644   All Aspen.
    33839   Aspen with foliage still on.
    44657   Leaves on in site photo but off in video. Aspen & Spruce.
    32653    
    44640   Pure Aspen.
42001 Spruce - fir   Click here  
    33378    
    32818   Mostly Spruce. Site photo to come when developed.
        See aspen section for other example of spruce video. Growth form of Picean engelmannii.
    44472   Boreas Pass Rd. looking SE.
    32884   Mostly Spruce.
42003 Douglas fir   Click here  
        Growth form of Douglas Fir. Central, CO.
    49910   Trees in zoom are exact trees seen in site photo opposite. Dead Douglas Fir orients photo.
42004 Lodgepole Pine   Click here  
    44214   Homogeneous lodgepole. Site photo taken from I-70.
    44478   Lots of Spruce/Fir in wide view. Site is a samll area of Lodgepole in a Spruce/Fir area. Immature Lodgepole.
42010 Ponderosa Pine   Click here  
    49921   Mtn. Mahogany in foreground; Ponderosa in background.
    49904    
    44848   Ponderosa Pine on red soil with Mtn. Big Sage and Mtn. Mahogany.
    44863    
    44965    
42011 Blue Spruce   Click here  
    33814   Site is mostly Aspen.
42015 Juniper Woodland   Click here  
    27828    
    27808    
    27814    
42016 Pinyon - Juniper   Click here  
    46180   Growth form of Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis)
    46166   Various components identified in zoom image. Site photo is exact site seen in video.
    46180   Components id'd in zoom photo. Site photo is exact site seen in video.
    46154    
    28294    
    28325    
42018 Mixed Conifer   Click here  
    45079   Co-dominant Ponderosa Pine & Douglas Fir.
    49901   Mix of Ponderosa Pine & Douglas Fir with Ponderosa dominant.
    50436   Site is mixture of Ponderosa Pine, Limber Pine, Aspen, & Fir.
    33899   Site includes Ponderosa Pine, Englemann Spruce, Subalpine Fir, & Aspen.
    33903   Zoomed photo: Ponderosa Pine, Engelmann Spruce, Subalpine Fir, Aspen. Site photo taken near Durango. Pnderosa(foreground) with Spruce(background).
    45085   Mix of Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, & Engelmann Spruce.
52001 Open Water   Click here  
    38567   Wide photo: All water. Zoom photo: Water & shoreline.
61001 Forested Wetland/Riparian   Click here  
    15517   Zoom photo: Cottonwood riparian.
62001 Shrub Wetland/Riparian   Click here  
    28088   Zoom photo: Arroyo contains Basin Big Sage & Greasewood. Site photo is exact location of zoom photo.
    28730   Zoom photo: Shrubs are probably Basin Big Sage. Site photo: Near Shell Creek; Basin Big Sage, Greasewood, & Rabbitbrush.
62002 Graminoid and forb Wetland/Riparian   Click here  
    44939    
74001 Exposed Rock   Click here  
    27221   Site photo to be added when developed.
81001 Prostrate Shrub and Tundra   Click here  
    33465   Site not visited but general area (Up valley from Silverton, CO) is above treeline. Definite shrubs in zoom photo, maybe willow & Talus.
    33466   Site not visited but general area (Up valley from Silverton, CO) is above treeline. Definite shrubs in zoom photo, maybe willow & Talus.
82001 Meadow Tundra   Click here  
    44444   Herbaceous vegetation above treeline on Baldy Mtn. near Breckenridge, CO. See also ID#44434 & 44442.
    33312    
    33311    
    44442   See also ID# 44434 & 44444.
    44434   See also ID# 44442 & 44434.
82002 Subalpine Meadow   Click here  
    33833   Site is near Durango.
    44439   Zoom photo: Subalpine Meadow with Engelmann Spruce. Site photo: Edge of treeline.
85000 Mixed Tundra   Click here  
    33368   Area is intermingled with treeline & includes talus herbaceous & shrub vegetation.
    33362   Area is a mix of talus, shrub & herbaceous vegetation near treeline. Site photo near Silverton, CO.


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Last Updated on 3/07/00