The First Step Towards An Integrated Arizona/Sonora Transborder GIS: Land Use And Land Cover Data Development Jana Hutchins, Dr. Eric Keys, Dr. Chris Lukinbeal, Dr. Richard Aspinall, Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia Juan Declet, Gabriel Judkins, David

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The First Step Towards An Integrated
Arizona/Sonora Transborder GIS Land Use And
Land Cover Data DevelopmentJana Hutchins, Dr.
Eric Keys, Dr. Chris Lukinbeal, Dr. Richard
Aspinall, Dr. Francisco Lara-Valencia Juan
Declet, Gabriel Judkins, David Nelson, Michael
AperArizona State University

• SCERP Annual Technical Conference
• December 13, 2006

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• Study Area
• Ambos Nogales to the Arizona-New Mexico border
• Objectives
• Develop Land Use Data
• Ambos Nogales
• Douglas\ Agua Prieta
• Naco\Naco
• Develop Land Cover
• Nogales to New Mexico border

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Land Use Categories

• Urban
• Residential
• Low, Medium, High Density
• School
• Industrial
• Landfill
• Junkyard
• Cemetery
• Utilities
• Commercial
• Bullring
• Mexican Customs
• Mercado
• Hotel
• Sports Complex

• Open Space
• Park
• Soccer Field
• Golf Course
• Transitional

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Land use, Transportation, and Imagery provide
base data for many urban applications

• Suitability Analysis
• Transportation Planning
• Comprehensive Planning
• Hazardous Waste Tracking
• Emergency Response

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Open Space
Residential
Industrial
Transitional
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Residential rooftops for density calculations
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Land Cover Categories
Class Description
Heavy Vegetation Forest, Riparian, Agriculture with strong reflectance
Medium Vegetation Stands of trees, Riparian areas, Fallow agriculture
Light Vegetation Shrubs-near complete coverage
Sparse Vegetation Various desert plants with most of the area as exposed dirt
Agricultural and Riparian As labeled--only in Bands 1, 2, 3 image
Shrub and Brush Rangeland Some shrubs with non-woody vegetation scattered throughout
Herbaceous Rangeland Lack of woody plants with vegetation scatted throughout
Transitional Desert Sand and rock throughout, sporadic non-woody plants
Desert Sand and rock with little to no vegetation of any kind
Mixed Barren Land Salt flats, sandy areas, bare exposed rock, and human built environment
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Land Cover provides baseline data for many
environmental applications

• Watershed Planning
• Habitat inventory and analysis
• Vegetation inventory and analysis
• Erosion modeling
• Riparian habitat inventory and analysis

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Unsupervised Band 1,2,3
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Unsupervised PCA NVDI
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Data Dissemination

• The project is listed on the SCERP Arizona/Sonora
  Data Node
• Data has been provided to the USGS web page as
  background layers to the Colonia information
• Data is also be stored on an ASU Data Server for
  research and instruction use

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US/Mexico Colonias Web Mapping Service
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US/Mexico Colonias Web Mapping Service
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US/Mexico Colonias Web Mapping Service
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SCERP Arizona/Sonora Data Node Arc IMS Site
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SCERP Arizona/Sonora Data Node Arc IMS Site
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SCERP Arizona/Sonora Data Node Arc IMS Site
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Compiling and Sharing Data

• Combining USGS infrastructure data with SCERP
  Land Use and Land Cover adds value to both
  datasets.
• Providing a single place to find GIS border data
  saves resources and increases efficiency.

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Future Work

• SCERP 2006-2007
• Develop Land use and Land cover for San Luis/Yuma
• Develop historical urban footprint for San
  Luis/Yuma
• SCERP 2007-2008
• Use Ambos Nogales Land use and Land cover to
  support watershed Management Planning for Ambos
  Nogales Sub-Basin of Santa Cruz River Watershed
• Provide GIS support and training to Nogales,
  Sonora
• Provide planning support for planning process to
  build capacity for local land use planning

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