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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Front Environ Sci. 2020 Mar 19;8:10.3389/fenvs.2020.00021. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00021

Table 1.

Description of LULC classes used to generate change map. Example field photos of these LULC classes can be found in Spruce et al., (2018).

LULC Class Code Description
Barren BA Barren areas that are not developed, including rock outcrops (e.g., bare karst topography)
Urban/Developed URB Urbanized and other developed areas mostly with predominantly bare inert surfaces (e.g., pavement and cement).
Permanent Crops PC Current agricultural areas with intensively managed crops on long term basis for commercial purposes (e.g., irrigated and rainfed rice, annual row crops, and pastures).
Shifting Cultivation SC Current agricultural areas managed on a rotational basis in which crops are grown temporarily for a few years and then allowed to be in fallow or forested state until the site has sufficiently recovered for a new cropping cycle.
Scrub/Shrub/Herbaceous SSH Mixture of low woody (e.g., forest regeneration) and non-woody vegetation that is typically transitional in nature, occurring after agricultural abandonment or forest harvesting.
Deciduous Forest/Scrub DFS Deciduous broadleaved forest and/or scrub that can have variable canopy closure and degrees of deciduousness.
Evergreen Forest EGF Evergreen forest that is primarily composed of broadleaved tree species and typically has closed canopies.
Industrial Forest Plantation IFP Industrial forest plantations that include rubber tree plantations.
Wetland Cover WET Wetland areas with woody and/or non-woody vegetation that is not used for agriculture.