Land Cover

Final report published for the Wisconsin Historic Landscape 2015 Community Forum Project

July 11, 2016

The final report of the Wisconsin Historic Landscape 2015 Community Forum Project is now available for viewing and download.

Wiscland 2 project moves on to more detailed maps

April 5, 2016

The Wiscland 2 project is moving forward with more detailed maps after receiving positive feedback on the initial Level 1 product delivery in January. As the maps get more complex there are new challenges, but the initial results are very promising.

First draft of statewide land cover product delivered to DNR

January 8, 2016

There is still a lot of work to be done before the final product is finished in the summer of 2016, but initial accuracy results show overall accuracy exceeds 90 percent for this draft product.

Wiscland 2 project moves on to map creation

October 7, 2015

The fieldwork season has wrapped up and the Wiscland 2 team is now making maps! Between the beginning of June and end of August, DNR field crews gathered over 16,000 additional sample points representing the current land cover of our state.

Field collection underway for Wiscland 2 project

July 3, 2015

The fieldwork season has begun to complete the samples database for the Wiscland-2 land cover mapping project! To round out the training/validation dataset of over 500,000 samples, ten Field Technicians have been brought on for the summer and are traveling the state to identify and collect GPS locations and ecological information with the aid of a DNR field mentor stationed in their collection region.