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There are many ways to classify or categorize a landscape. For the physical environment there are several major methodologies to accomplish this task, depending on the goal. Landscapes may be categorized by local, regional national, or global-scale landscape characteristics. This page has been organized to illustrate several of the best known and acknowledged approaches.
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These land cover classes were derived from the class definitions of the IGBP land cover classification in combination with the GeoCover land cover legend. The land cover categories were created using a combination of parallelepiped and maximum likelihood rules. The satellite data used for this land cover map is Landsat. |