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This layer contains the Forest Type across the contiguous United States and Alaska. A brief summary of the item is not available. Add a brief summary about the item.

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Item created: Oct 2, 2013 Item updated: Apr 26, 2024 View count: 381,620

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Important Note: This item is in mature support as of April 2024 and will be retired in December 2026.new version of this item is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version.

This layer portrays 141 forest types across the contiguous United States and Alaska. This 250m raster was derived from MODIS composite images from the 2002 and 2003 growing seasons in combination with nearly 100 other geospatial data layers, including elevation, slope, aspect, ecoregions, and PRISM climate data.
 
The purpose of this layer is to portray broad distribution patterns of forest cover in the United States and provide input to national scale modeling projects. Knowing where various forest types occur can be used to predict wildlife movements or design corridors, or to predict the effect of climate change on forest species.

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The dataset was developed as a collaborative effort between the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis and Forest Health Monitoring programs and the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center. The source format is 250-meter raster. This layer covers the entire United States.

The original forest type layer is available from the USDA portal.

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This layer has query, identify, and export image services available. The layer is restricted to a 24,000 x 24,000 pixel limit, which represents an area of nearly 450 miles on a side.

This layer is part of a larger collection of landscape layers that you can use to perform a wide variety of mapping and analysis tasks.

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Important Note: This item is in mature support as of April 2024 and will be retired in December 2026.new version of this item is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version.

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[Deleted User] Item Owner commented 6 years ago Delete Reply

what do i need to do to see the various tools and how to use it.

[Deleted User] Item Owner commented 9 years ago Delete Reply

Wade, You can make a server connection in ArcMap and use the data directly in GP tools and model builder. There is a recent blog post (http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/09/22/use-living-atlas-image-services-in-your-desktop-analysis/) that describes how to use the data in desktop. Once you have an Image Server Layer you can save out a chunk of the data to your local disk.

cwader Item Owner commented 9 years ago Delete Reply

How can I download this data?

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