Does the CDL differentiate between grassland types such as pasture, urban grassland, CRP grassland and other grass-related land cover types?
Unfortunately, the grassland-related categories have traditionally had very low classification accuracy in the CDL. This is an issue of land use versus land cover. The satellite sensor and classification process can only identify land cover types. It cannot differentiate specific land uses, such as urban open space, shrubland, pasture for grazing, or CRP. We continue to search for program enhancements and ancillary datasets that may help improve the identification of grassland and pasture categories within the CDL.
