Alaska Landcover

We are at the reporting phase for 2004 fires to meet requirements for the MTBS project. We've agreed to report the number of fires, by severity class, by land ownership, by 4th-level HUC, and by landcover. The only thing that has been holding us up is securing (or creating...) a good landcover layer for Alaska. We got NLCD-like data from Ducks Unlimited, NPS, and the State BLM in Alaska, but no two layers are exactly the same.

For our reporting to work (think automation...), we need all the landcover to be coded exactly the same, whether we're talking about CONUS or Alaska. So I've spent the last few days bringing in all the Alaska landcover data we have and recoding them to match NLCD 2001 parameters. It's been quite a manual hassle because I'm not able to batch more than two at a time. I'm nearly done and then we've got to reproject them all to Alaska Albers. They came in Albers NAD27, Albers WGS84, Albers NAD83, and UTM. Nice consistent data product, eh?