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Table 2. Fourteen land cover classes from three season mosaics of 30 m resolution satellite remote
sensing data.

Landcover Class Description Examples from Phase 1

Barren/Sparsely little or no vegetation year-round river beds, quarries, areas
Vegetated cleared for development

Cold Deciduous Forest >25% total tree canopy (>4 m tall), where >75% of the
and Woodland relative cover is cold deciduous trees oaks, hackberry, elm, ash

>25% total canopy of trees and shrubs (<4 m tall),
Cold Deciduous where the majority of the canopy is shrubs, and the sumacs, winged elm,
Shrubland mesquite, Chickasaw plum
majority of the woody plants are cold deciduous

Coniferous Evergreen >25% total tree canopy (>4 m tall), where >75% of the pines, eastern redcedar
Forest and Woodland relative cover is coniferous evergreen

>25% total canopy of trees and shrubs (<4 m tall),
Coniferous Evergreen eastern redcedar, Ashe
Shrubland where the majority of the canopy is shrubs, and the juniper
majority of the woody species are evergreen

dominated by herbaceous vegetation, usually
Grassland graminoid, with less than 25% woody cover. Includes Bermudagrass, little
bluestem, field brome
both planted pasture and native prairie.

seasonally or semi-permanently flooded, or saturated
Herbaceous Emergent rushes, sedges, grasses
soil wetlands dominated by herbaceous vegetation

High Intensity Urban urban development, generally >70% impervious cover city centers, highways

Low Intensity Urban urban development, generally <70% impervious cover residential areas

Mixed Cold Deciduous / >25% total tree canopy (>4 m tall), where >75% of the oaks with eastern redcedar or
Evergreen Forest and relative cover is neither only cold deciduous trees or pines
Woodland only evergreen trees

Open Water open water with little or no emergent vegetation reservoirs, ponds, rivers

pine plantation based on evidence of clear cuts loblolly pine plantations that
Pine Planation
between 2000 and 2012 or dense, regular signature are intensively managed

Row Crops Row crop agricultural lands sorghum, corn

Seasonally Flooded areas with evidence of water at the surface during at limited to river floodplains of
Bottomland least one season southeast Oklahoma

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