WVLC.FDEN81 -- West Virginia Forest Area Density at 590 hectare Scale

This dataset is a grid map for West Virginia at 30 meter resolution. Each pixel value represents an index of forest area density for the surrounding 590.49 ha.(81x81 pixel) analysis window. The dataset was created by applying a spatial filter to a published map of land cover from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The spatial filter computed the index from the surrounding proportions of forest and non-forest land cover types. The [0,1] continuous index was discretized, and a byte representation [1,255] was stored at the center location (i.e., at the center pixel) in a new map. Each pixel in the new map is an index of forest area density, for the surrounding 590.49 ha window, for the corresponding pixel in the original land cover map.