Historical land use and land cover for assessing the northern Colorado Front Range urban landscape

Mark A. Drummond, Michael P. Stier and James (Jay) E. Diffendorfer

Journal of Maps, 2019, vol. 15, issue 2, 89-93

Abstract: We describe historical land-use and land-cover (LULC) maps for the northern Colorado urban Front Range. The Front Range urban landscape is diverse and interspersed with highly productive agriculture, as well as natural land cover types including evergreen forest in the Rocky Mountain foothills and Great Plains grassland. To understand the dynamics of urban growth, raster maps were created at a 1-meter resolution for each of four time steps, nominally 1937, 1957, 1977, and 1997. In total, 38 detailed LULC classes were identified using manual interpretation techniques, aerial photographs, historical maps, and other available information. The maps provide high-resolution spatial data for understanding the historical progression of urbanization and will allow further analysis of the effects of urban growth on social and ecological systems.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1548383

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