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    • FIA Landcover County Estimates - 2017 (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    This feature class represents forest area estimates (and percent sampling error) by county for the year 2017. The data was generated from the Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) using the EVALIDator web tool (https://apps.fs.usda.gov/Evalidator/evalidator.jsp). The areas were calculated within county limits using the US Census Bureau's county spatial data (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_counties.html). Features and attributes of the county layer were adapted to match attributes within the FIA database (FIADB) and features have been generalized by removing vertices to enhance performance. Future iterations of this dataset will be produced using refined methods and higher resolution spatial data. Metadata and Downloads

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7f58927e19084813befefd9e932548da&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2019-03-04
    Data Last Modified 2022-08-29
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id f88d2470-f576-4aa4-be8f-adf748077a23
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::fia-landcover-county-estimates-2017-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -178.3322,17.8812,-65.2211,63.2228
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b3d8aaf4cdb33223f5eae919701557cc2e5c0d134304d4a82442599a84b850fd
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -178.3322, 17.8812, -178.3322, 63.2228, -65.2211, 63.2228, -65.2211, 17.8812, -178.3322, 17.8812}

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