Description: Lands in pineapple production in Hawaii in 1900. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for pineapple lands in production in 1920 and 1937. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/pineapple_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: Lands in pineapple production in Hawaii in 1920. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for pineapple lands in production in 1900 and 1937. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/pineapple_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: Lands in pineapple production in Hawaii in 1937. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for pineapple lands in production in 1900 and 1920. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/pineapple_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: Lands in sugar cane production in Hawaii in 1900. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for sugar cane lands in production in 1920 and 1937. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/sugarcane_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: Lands in sugar cane production in Hawaii in 1920. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for sugar cane lands in production in 1900 and 1937. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/sugarcane_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: Lands in sugar cane production in Hawaii in 1937. The data was obtained from historical hard copy land utilization maps and digitized for use by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Layers also exist for sugar cane lands in production in 1900 and 1920. For additional information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/sugarcane_historical.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Branch; Tetra Tech EM, Inc
Description: This map represents the distribution of seven moisture zones for the main Hawaiian Islands. The maps were produced as part of a species range modeling effort for the Hawaiian flora. Details on methodology and related products can be found in: Price, J. P., J. D. Jacobi, S. M. Gon, III, D. Matsuwaki, L. Mehrhoff, W. L. Wagner, M. Lucas, and B. Rowe. 2012, Mapping plant species ranges in the Hawaiian Islands-Developing a methodology and associated GIS layers. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report OFR 2012-1192, Reston, VA. For more information, please see complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/moisture_zones.html or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program at gis@hawaii.gov.
Copyright Text: Hawaii Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Hilo
; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
; U.S. Geological Survey
Name: Carbon Assessment of Hawaii - Habitat Status (Layer May Draw Slowly)
Display Field: description
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This layer depicts the status, or degree of disturbance, to plant communities on the main Hawaiian Islands. Several layers were uset to create this version (v 3.4). The original HabQual layer was developed by Jon Price and Jim Jacobi based on the mapped land cover units from the Hawaii GAP analysis program (Gon et al. 2006). This map was revised by combining data on land use and the “Bare” category from the NOAA C-CAP 2005 map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and adding road corridors to the heavily disturbed category based on the Tiger Roads layer (United States Census Bureau 2014). Additionally, corrections were made to this version of the map by visually inspecting previously mapped units and comparing them to recent high-resolution imagery including WorldView 2 multi-spectral imagery and to very-high resolution RGB imagery obtained from Pictometry Online (Pictometery International 2014). Changes were made to the map using the program GRID Editor developed by ARIS B.V. (2014) by Jim Jacobi. Latest edits made in September 2014.The starting raster "Habqual" was developed by Jim Jacobi, USGS PIERC. The bare earth category came from NOAA's CCAP dataset and was used to overwrite the original Habqual dataset for categories 2 & 3 (native and mixed). If Habqual was already distrubed (category = 1), then it was NEVER overwritten as bare earth; instead it remained classified as disturbed. Lastly, the TIGER roads layer was buffered and converted into a raster of category 1 (distrubed). The roads raster was then mosaic'ed on top of Habqual to expand the distrubed class to include roads & adjacent disturbed areas.This layer has four mapped values: 1 = heavily disturbed areas including agriculture and urban developments; 2 = mixed native-alien dominated plant communities; 3 = native dominated vegetation; and 4 = bare lands or <5% plant cover.ReferencesARIS B.V. 2014, GRID Editor for ArcMap. ARIS B.V., Netherlands. https://www.aris.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=211Gon, S. M., III, A. Allison, R. J. Cannarella, J. D. Jacobi, K. Y. Kaneshiro, M. H. Kido, M. Lane-Kamahele, and S. E. Miller. 2006. The Hawai‘i GAP Analysis Final Report. Report, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. 162 p plus tables, figures, maps, and appendices.NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center. 2012. C-CAP Hawaii 2005 Land Cover Map. NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC USA. https://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/ccapregional. Pictometery International. 2014, Pictometry Online. Pictometry International Corp., Rochester NY. https://www.pictometry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=93United States Census Bureau. 2014, TIGER/Line Shapefiles and TIGER/Line Files. U.S. Department of Commerce. https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html. For more information, please see complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cah_habitat_status_poly.html or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program at gis@hawaii.gov.
Copyright Text: Zhiliang Zhu (U.S. Geological Survey Land Carbon Program); U.S. Geological Survey's Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center; U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management (NREM), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR)
Description: LESA (Land Evaluation and Site Assessment). Important Agricultural Lands as determined/delineated by the LESA Commission, 1986. Source: "A Report on the State of Hawaii Land Evaluation and Site Assessment System" by the State of Hawaii Land Evaluation and Site Assessment Commission, February 1986. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/lesa.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii Statewide GIS Program; LESA Commission
Description: Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii for the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii as of 1977.
Source: State Department of Agriculture 1:24,000 hand drafted blueline maps, compiled and drafted in 1977. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/alish.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Agriculture; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
Description: LSB - Land Study Bureau's Detailed Agricultural land productivity ratings for Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii. Source: Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification, 1965-1972. Aerial Photos hand drafted onto paper overlays of the U.S.G.S., 1:24,000 topographic and orthophoto quads. Ratings were developed for both over-all productivity, and for specific crops. This layer represents only the over-all productivity ratings. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For more information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/lsb.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Land Study Bureau; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
Description: The 2015 Hawaii Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary commercial agricultural land use activity in Hawaii. It is based upon an assemblage of geospatial datasets, primarily high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite imagery (2011-2013) used as a base layer for digitization. Additional datasets used in this work include GIS layers (‘Agriculture and Farming’, ‘Inland Water Resources’, and ‘Cadastral and Land Descriptions’) provided by the state of Hawaii, Office of Planning Statewide GIS Program and other data provided by major land owners and managers. Digitized crop locations and boundaries were verified through a combination of on-the-ground site visits, meetings and presentations of draft layers with agricultural stakeholders and landowners, solicitations through a publicly accessible online web mapping portal, and spot-checking using Google Earth™ and other high resolution imagery sources. In addition to the satellite imagery, County Real Property Tax and Agricultural Water Use data were also used to identify commercial farm operations. Data for both real property tax assessment and agricultural water use were collected from each county thatprovided their most recent records, generally from 2014-2015. Not all properties that receive County agricultural tax assessment rates or reduced water cost for agricultural uses were mapped due to the small scale of some of their operations. These data sources were used to verify mapped commercial farms and identify operations that might have been missed using the imagery alone. The 2015 Hawaii Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer represents our best efforts to capture the scale and diversity of commercial agricultural activity in Hawaii in 2015 and should be used for informational purposes only. Note: April 2022: Several users of the data discovered that the original 2015 Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer and the 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer did not overlay properly, with an offset between the layers of 10 feet to 40 feet, depending on the area. As a result, both the original and the updated layers have been republished, and now overlay as they should. The underlying data itself has not changed. Please note - if you download data from the State's geoportal (https://geoportal.hawaii.gov/), the data is exported in WGS84 coordinates, although it is stored internally (in the State’s geodatabase), served in the State's web services (https://geodata.hawaii.gov/arcgis/rest/services) and made available in the State's legacy download site (https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis/download-gis-data-expanded/) in UTM / NAD 83 coordinates. For more information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/aglanduse_2015.pdf or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program at gis@hawaii.gov.
Copyright Text: Sylvana Cares, Ryan Perroy and Jeff Melrose
Please acknowledge the Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization Lab at the University of Hawaii at Hilo as a source when this data is used in the preparation of reports, papers, publications, maps, and other products.
Description: The 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary commercial agricultural land use activity in Hawaiʻi. It is based upon an assemblage of geospatial datasets, primarily high-resolution WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellite imagery (2018 – 2020) used as a base layer for digitization. Additional datasets used in this work include GIS layers provided by the state of Hawaiʻi, Office of Planning Statewide GIS Program and other data provided by major land owners and managers. County Real Property Tax and Agricultural Water Use data were also used to identify commercial farm operations. Not all properties that receive County agricultural tax assessment rates or reduced water cost for agricultural uses were mapped due to the small scale of some of their operations. These data sources were used to verify mapped commercial farms and identify operations that might have been missed using the imagery alone. Digitized crop locations and boundaries were verified through a combination of on-the-ground site visits, meetings and presentations of draft layers with agricultural stakeholders and landowners, solicitations through a publicly accessible online web mapping portal, and spot- checking using Google Earth™ and other high resolution imagery sources. The 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer represents our best efforts to capture the scale and diversity of commercial agricultural activity in Hawaiʻi in 2020 and should be used for informational purposes only. Note: February 2022: Maui County added, Several additional minor updates have been made to the original 2020 Update to the Hawaii Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline that was published in May 2021. Note: April 2022: Several users of the data discovered that the original Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer and the 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline layer did not overlay properly, with an offset between the layers of 10 feet to 40 feet, depending on the area. As a result, both the original and the updated layers have been republished, and now overlay as they should. The underlying data itself has not changed. Please note - if you download data from the State's geoportal (https://geoportal.hawaii.gov/), the data is exported in WGS84 coordinates, although it is stored internally (in the State’s geodatabase), served in the State's web services (https://geodata.hawaii.gov/arcgis/rest/services) and made available in the State's legacy download site (https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis/download-gis-data-expanded/) in UTM / NAD 83 coordinates. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/aglanduse_2020_haw.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Please acknowledge Perroy, R., & Collier, E. (2021). 2020 Update to the Hawaiʻi Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline. Hawaii State Department of Agriculture, as a source when this data is used in the preparation of reports, papers, publications, maps, and other products.
Description: Agricultural Land Use Maps (ALUM) for islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii as of 1978-1980. Sources: State Department of Agriculture; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning. For more information on data sources and methodologies used, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/alum.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Agriculture; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
Description: Threatened and Endangered Plants as of 1992
Source: State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resouces, Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW). There is one T&E coverage for each island. Each island is divided into distinct zones of T&E species concentration, ranging from 'low' concentration to 'very high' concentration of T&E plant species. It should be noted, however, that for these particular coverages,concentration does not necessarily reflect the rareness of a particular plant species. In other words, an area designated as having a 'low' concentration of T&E species may include the last known occurrence of a particular plant species. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/teplant.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
density
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type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: density, length: 2
, Coded Values:
[O: Little or No T&E Species]
, [L: Low Concentration of T&E Species]
, [M: Medium Concentration of T&e Species]
, ...3 more...
)
Description: Vegetation maps of varying detail for the island of Hawaii as of 1989.
Source: Technical Report #68, "Vegetation Maps of the Upland Plant Communities on the Islands of Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, and Lana'i", June, 1989, James D. Jacobi, author. This is the most detailed layer, available only for the island of Hawaii. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/veg.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
degree_of_disturbance
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type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: degree_of_disturbance, length: 19
, Coded Values:
[NN: Communities Totally Dominated by Bative Species of Plants]
, [NX: Communities That Have the Dominant Vegetation Layer Occupied by Native Species and the Subdominant Layer Primarily Occupied by Exotic Species]
, [XN: Communities Dominated by Introduced Species but Contain Remnant Populations of Native Species; No Native Community Structure Remaining]
, ...2 more...
)
Description: Vegetation maps of varying detail for the island of Hawaii as of 1989.
Source: Technical Report #68, "Vegetation Maps of the Upland Plant Communities on the Islands of Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, and Lana'i", June, 1989, James D. Jacobi, author. This is the layer with the medium level of detail. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/veg.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
degree_of_disturbance
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type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: degree_of_disturbance, length: 19
, Coded Values:
[NN: Communities Totally Dominated by Bative Species of Plants]
, [NX: Communities That Have the Dominant Vegetation Layer Occupied by Native Species and the Subdominant Layer Primarily Occupied by Exotic Species]
, [XN: Communities Dominated by Introduced Species but Contain Remnant Populations of Native Species; No Native Community Structure Remaining]
, ...2 more...
)
Description: Vegetation maps of varying detail for the island of Hawaii as of 1989.
Source: Technical Report #68, "Vegetation Maps of the Upland Plant Communities on the Islands of Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, and Lana'i", June, 1989, James D. Jacobi, author. This is the layer with the most general level of detail. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/veg.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
degree_of_disturbance
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type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: degree_of_disturbance, length: 19
, Coded Values:
[NN: Communities Totally Dominated by Bative Species of Plants]
, [NX: Communities That Have the Dominant Vegetation Layer Occupied by Native Species and the Subdominant Layer Primarily Occupied by Exotic Species]
, [XN: Communities Dominated by Introduced Species but Contain Remnant Populations of Native Species; No Native Community Structure Remaining]
, ...2 more...
)
Name: Carbon Assessment of Hawaii Land Cover - Biome Unit (Layer May Draw Slowly)
Display Field: detailed_lc_unit
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: The CAH Land Cover Map was produced to serve as a base map for estimating current and future carbon stocks for the main Hawaiian Islands as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's national carbon assessment. The CAH General Map units were used to calculate current carbon stocks and the CAH Biome units were used as a starting point for projecting future distribution of the major plant communities from which potential future carbon stocks were calculated. While there have been many maps produced that depict vegetation for the state of Hawai‘i only a few of these display land cover for all of the main Hawaiian Islands, and most of those that were created before the year 2000 have very generalized units or are somewhat inaccurate as a result of more recent land use changes or due to poor resolution (both spatial and spectral) in the imagery that was used to produce the map. Some of the more detailed and accurate maps include the Hawai‘i GAP Analysis (HI-GAP) Land Cover map (Gon et al. 2006), the NOAA C-CAP Land Cover map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and the more recently released Hawai‘i LANDFIRE EVT Land Cover map (U.S. Geological Survey 2009). However, all of these maps as originally produced were not considered to be detailed enough, current enough, or had other classification issues that would not allow them to be used as the primary base for the Hawai‘i Carbon Assessment. For the Hawai‘i Carbon Assessment we integrated components from several of these previously mentioned land cover and land use mapping efforts and combined them into a single new land cover map (CAH Land Cover) that was further updated using very-high-resolution imagery. The hierarchical classification system of the CAH Land Cover map allows for grouping the mapped units into different configurations, ranging from very detailed plant communities reflecting current conditions to very generalized major land cover units and biomes that represent land use and potential vegetation zones, respectively. The CAH Land Cover classification is hierarchical with forty-eight CAH Detailed Land Cover units which can be grouped into twenty-seven CAH General Land Cover units, thirteen CAH Biome units, and seven CAH Major Land Cover units (Appendix 1). The CAH Detailed Land Cover units generally correspond to the rUSNVC Association level, the CAH General Land Cover units are related to the rUSNVC Group level, and the CAH Biome units connect to the rUSNVC Subclass level. For more information, please see complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cah_land_cover_poly.html or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program at gis@hawaii.gov.
Copyright Text: Zhiliang Zhu (U.S. Geological Survey Land Carbon Program); U.S. Geological Survey's Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center; U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management (NREM), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR)
Description: Hawaii Brightfields Initiative Data as of September, 2019. HSEO has made it a priority to support informed renewable energy production in Hawaii. The Hawaii Brightfields Initiative database is intended to inform preliminary site due diligence and reduce soft costs associated with renewable energy development decisions. HSEO offers this resource to facilitate the reuse of previously developed or disturbed lands for renewable energy development in support of achieving its mandate of 100% renewable energy generation by 2045. For the purposes of the Hawaii Brightfields Initiative database, current site status regarding use, remediation, or actual or potential contamination has not been verified. Sites in this database may or may not have been assessed or remediated. Users should seek additional information and confirm actual site status and risks with the proper state and federal regulatory authorities, including HEER and/or the Hawaii Department of Health Solid and Hazardous Waste Branch. Information on specific individual sites may be found in HEER’s iHEER System(search by Tax Map Key number) and/or EPA’s RE-PoweringMapper(search by site key word, location, or name using the "Find" feature [Ctrl-F]). For more information, please refer to metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/hi_brightfields_initiative_data.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Copyright Text: Hawaii State Energy Office; US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL); Hawaii Department of Health Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office (HEER); Hawaii Statewide GIS Program
Description: Land Use Land Cover of main Hawaiian Islands as of 1976
Source: 1:100,000 1976 Digital GIRAS (Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis) files. Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data consists of historical land use and land cover classification data that was based primarily on the manual interpretation of 1970's and 1980's aerial photography. Secondary sources included land use maps and surveys. There are 21 possible categories of cover type. The spatial resolution for all LULC files will depend on the format and feature type. Files in GIRAS format will have a minimum polygon area of 10 acres (4 hectares) with a minimum width of 660 feet (200 meters) for manmade features. Non-urban or natural features have a minimum polygon area of 40 acres (16 hectares) with a minimum width of 1320 feet (400 meters). Files in CTG format will have a resolution of 30 meters. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For additional information, please refer to https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/lulc.pdf or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.
Description: This is a vector GIS coverage (ESRI ArcInfo format) of the land use of the island of Oahu, 1998, derived from multiple sources of digital orthophotos. Note: May 2024 - Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed. For more information, please refer to full metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/lu98_oah.pdf or contact the Hawaii Statewide GIS Program at gis@hawaii.gov.
Copyright Text: Klasner, F.L., and Mikami, C.D., 2002, Land Use on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4301. Prepared in cooperation with Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S.D.A., U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, State of Hawaii-Department of Agriculture, State of Hawaii-Department of Forestry & Wildlife, City and County of Honolulu, and others.