topic Land Use Land Cover Help Please in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/land-use-land-cover-help-please/m-p/519564#M29510 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I apologise if this is in the wrong forum, however I am struggling to find how to make a land use Land cover raster to use in InVEST software.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am very new to GIS and the InVEST tool set, but use AutoCAD a lot, I have;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ArcMap 10.1 basic (Arc View)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>AutoCAD 2009</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>LSS </SPAN><A href="http://www.dtmsoftware.com/">http://www.dtmsoftware.com/</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>InVEST </SPAN><A href="http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/InVEST.html">http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/InVEST.html</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>InVEST requires a land use raster in .adf format. I have produced 3D polylines for woodland, ponds and the whole site boundary that I have managed bring in to Arc and convert to shp files. I have produced a Esri Grid DEM in LSS and successfully brought that into Arc. But I do not know how to produce a Land Use map. The area concerned is only 42 hectares and does not have any representative aerial photographs.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This work is for my final dissertation at Uni and I am looking at assessing the Ecosystem Services that the site provides, carbon sequestration, timber production and water management mainly.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be very very much appreciated.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:24 GMT JaimieBingham 2014-01-04T14:26:24Z Land Use Land Cover Help Please https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/land-use-land-cover-help-please/m-p/519564#M29510 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I apologise if this is in the wrong forum, however I am struggling to find how to make a land use Land cover raster to use in InVEST software.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am very new to GIS and the InVEST tool set, but use AutoCAD a lot, I have;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ArcMap 10.1 basic (Arc View)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>AutoCAD 2009</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>LSS </SPAN><A href="http://www.dtmsoftware.com/">http://www.dtmsoftware.com/</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>InVEST </SPAN><A href="http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/InVEST.html">http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/InVEST.html</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>InVEST requires a land use raster in .adf format. I have produced 3D polylines for woodland, ponds and the whole site boundary that I have managed bring in to Arc and convert to shp files. I have produced a Esri Grid DEM in LSS and successfully brought that into Arc. But I do not know how to produce a Land Use map. The area concerned is only 42 hectares and does not have any representative aerial photographs.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This work is for my final dissertation at Uni and I am looking at assessing the Ecosystem Services that the site provides, carbon sequestration, timber production and water management mainly.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be very very much appreciated.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/land-use-land-cover-help-please/m-p/519564#M29510 JaimieBingham 2014-01-04T14:26:24Z