Chapter 20 Terms

Question 1

Land Cover

Answer 1

1. refers to the type of material present in the landscape 2. examples- water, forest, sand, crops, urban, you get the picture…

Question 2

Land Usage

Answer 2

1. What people do on land surface (ex. agriculture, commerce, settlements)

Question 3

If a hard (vs. soft) classification, the classes should be:

Answer 3

1. Mutually exclusive- no taxonomic overlap (fuzziness) of any classes
2. Exhaustive- all land cover classes present in the landscape are accounted for
3. Hierarchical- sub-level classes (ex. single fam/res or multi fam/res) may be hierarchically combined into higher level categories.