Falcone J.A. author Homer Collin G. author 2012 FY 2013 Characterization of urban land uses is essential for many applications. However, differentiating among thematicallydetailed urban land uses (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, recreational, etc.) over broad areas is challenging, in part because image-based solutions are not ideal for establishing the contextual basis for identifying economic function and use. At present no current United States national-scale mapping exists for urban land uses similar to the classical Anderson Level II classification. This paper describes a product that maps urban land uses, and is linked to and corresponds with the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2006. In this product, NLCD urban pixels, in addition to their current imperviousness intensity classification, are assigned one of nine urban use classes based on information drawn from multiple data sources. These sources include detailed infrastructure information, population characteristics, and historical land use. The result is a method for creating a 30 m national-scale grid providing thematically-detailed urban land use information which complements the NLCD. Initial results for 10 major metropolitan areas are provided as an on-line link. Accuracy assessment of initial products yielded an overall accuracy of 81.6 percent. accuracy accuracy assessment application area assessment characterization classification data data source database historical imperviousness infrastructure journal articles land land cover land cover database land use land-cover land-use map mapping National Land Cover Database NLCD pixel United States urban Journal exported from refbase (http://eros.usgs.gov/refbase/show.php?record=25636), last updated on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:35:02 -0600 text http://www.asprs.org/Photogrammetric-Engineering-and-Remote-Sensing/PE-RS-Journals.html http://www.asprs.org/Photogrammetric-Engineering-and-Remote-Sensing/PE-RS-Journals.html Falcone+Homer2012 EROS @ cdeering @ 1290 2012 continuing periodical academic journal 78 10 1057 1068 http://www.asprs.org/Photogrammetric-Engineering-and-Remote-Sensing/PE-RS-Journals.html