Ecological Planning Method - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 240

TABLE 13.3
U.S. Geological Survey Land Use and Land-Cover Classification
System for Use with Remote Sensor Data

Level I Level II

1. Urban or built-up
land

11 Residential
12 Commercial and services
13 Industrial
14 Transportation, communication, and services
15 Industrial and commercial complexes
16 Mixed urban or built-up land
17 Other urban or built-up land

2. Agricultural land 21 Cropland and pasture

22 Orchids, groves, vineyards, nurseries, and
ornamental horticulture
23 Confined feeding operations
24 Other agricultural

3. Rangeland 31 Herbaceous rangeland

32 Shrub and brush rangeland
33 Mixed rangeland

4. Forest land 41 Deciduous forest lad

42 Evergreen forest land
43 Mixed forest land

5. Water 51 Streams and canals

52 Lakes
53 Reservoirs
54 Bays and estuaries

6. Wetland 61 Forested wetland

62 Nonforested wetland

7. Barren land 71 Dry salt flats

72 Beaches
73 Sandy areas other than beaches
74 Bare exposed rocks
75 Strip mines, quarries, and gravel pits
76 Transitional areas
77 Mixed barren land

8. Tundra 81 Shrub and brush tundra

82 Herbaceous tundra
83 Bare ground
84 Mixed tundra

9. Perennial snow ice 91 Perennial snow ice

92 Glaciers

Source: Anderson, J.R. et al., A land use and land cover classification
system for use with remote sensor data, U.S. Geological Survey,
Professional Paper 964, 1976.

13.2.6 Step 6: Planning Area Concepts, Options, and Choices

This step involves the development of concepts for the planning area. These concepts can
be viewed as options for the future based on the suitabilities for the use(s) that give a
general conceptual model or scenario of how problems may be solved. This model should
be presented in such a way that the goals will be achieved. Often more than one scenario
has to be made. These concepts are based on a logical and imaginative combination of the
information gathered through the inventory and analysis steps. The conceptual model