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Area Austin Creek
Topic Land Cover: USFS Veg Size - Austin Creek Calwaters 1999
 
Caption:  This chart shows vegetation coverage by size classes for Austin Creek Calwater Planning Watersheds. Data are derived from a 1999 Landsat image by the U.S. Forest Service. The majority of the forested areas contain medium/large and small/medium trees with less coverage of small trees and saplings. There is little large tree (0.1-4.8%) and very large tree (0.2-0.1%) areas. The vegetation classification is accurate at a one-hectare scale and is suitable for stand classification. Click on Map to see spatial data. Vegetation is classified according to diameter at breast height (DBH): Giant > 50", Very Large = 40-50" DBH, Large = 30-39.9" DBH, Medium/Large = 20-29.9" DBH, Small/Medium = 12-19.9" DBH, Small = 5-11.9" DBH, Saplings = 1-4.9" DBH, Non-Forest = No trees, shrubs, grass, bare soil. Click on InfoLinks for more information.


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To view additional information (data source, aquisition date etc.) about this page, click Metadata .
To view the table with the chart's data, click Chart Table web page.
To download the table with the chart's data, click vegsize_usfs_austin.dbf (size 666 bytes) .
To view the table with the chart's source data, click Source Table web page.
To download the table with the chart's source data, click vegsize_usfs_russian_calwaters.dbf (size 16,230 bytes)
 
 
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