This layer shows seven land-cover categories across the seven-county Chicago region. The data are at a 1 ft resolution and were created using 2017 LiDAR. The land cover categories are:
1: Tree canopy
2: Vegetation
3: Bare soil
4: Water
5: Buildings
6: Roads/rail
7: Other paved
This layer was created by the University of Vermont's spatial analytics lab. The project was managed by the Morton Arboretum and was funded by the US Forest Service.