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_ScienceBase Catalog
__Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC)
___Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center Data
____Upper Mississippi River System
_____Land Cover Data
______1989 Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program Land Cover Data: Mississippi & Illinois Rivers
The U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) has created high-resolution land cover/use data sets for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) from 1:15,000-scale color infrared aerial photos collected in 1989. The data are available in two formats. The first used a detailed genus-level classification scheme and was used to classify Mississippi River Navigation Pools 4 through 26, the Open River between Grand Tower and River Mile 32, and the Peoria navigation Pool on the Illinois River. The second classification scheme was developed in 1998 in response to a scientific and programmatic review of the center's mapping projects. This classification scheme identifies plant communities...