
Last Updated 01/01/2010
Parcel-based land use GIS datasets are available for the following counties: Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, Liberty, Waller, Austin, and Walker. Please click the button below to open our online Data Request Form. Upon successful completion of the online form, which includes acceptance of our terms and conditions, you will receive an e-mail confirmation with a link directing you to the DropBox website. A DropBox account is not required for the download.

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Land Use Totals by County
Last Updated 01/01/2010
A summary of land use by county and detailed land use codes for each county where parcel-based land use is available:
Land Use Totals by County (XLS) 107K Land Use Totals by County (PDF) 422K
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Regional Land Use Information System
Last Updated 04/15/2013
View and query our land use data, review our land use map and submit data queries for the H-GAC region with this web based mapping application.
Current and Future Land Use data displayed in the Regional Land Use Information System application are available for download in ESRI file geodatabase format (requires version ArcGIS 10.0 or higher). Please click the button below to open our online Data Request Form. Upon successful completion of the online form, which includes acceptance of our terms and conditions, you will receive an e-mail confirmation with a link directing you to the DropBox website. A DropBox account is not required for the download.

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Contact
For further information regarding land use data and GIS mapping tools please contact:
Community & Environmental Planning GIS
CEGIS@h-gac.com
(713) 627-3200
Bill Bass, Chief GIS Specialist
Lei Zhou, GIS Analyst
Preeti Khwaounjoo, GIS Analyst
Brooks Andrews, GIS Analyst
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Last Updated 04/15/2013
Land Cover Data Sets
2008 Land Cover Data Set
H-GAC unveils the 2008 land cover data set which maps the 15 counties that encompass the Clean Rivers Program’s (CRP) assessment basins. The 2008 land cover data set updates the 2002 land cover map and is available in three formats: an original 10 category classification and two reprocessed classifications which slightly modify the original map. The 10 category classification used in this land cover delineation follows the hierarchical classification scheme utilized by the National Land Cover Data (NLCD). Due to accuracy limitations the land cover data is not to be used for regulatory, jurisdictional or local planning decision making without thorough field verification.
Image Processing Protocol (PDF) 479K
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2002 Land Cover Data Set
H-GAC's 2002 Land Cover data set classifies the region's landscape into nine land cover categories. The Land Cover data is available in three formats: An original nine category classification, and two reprocessed classifications based on the original classification. Due to accuracy limitations of the classification, this data is not to be used for regulatory or jurisdictional decision making without rigorous or intensive field verification efforts.
Click on the thumbnails or links below to review a sample image of each product or to download. All datasets are in UTM 15 Projection, Units Meters, Datum NAD83.
Image Processing Protocol (PDF) 624K | Grid Code/Land Cover Pairing (PDF) 65K
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More Information
H-GAC Clean Rivers Program Assessment Basins Map (PDF) 3.2M
H-GAC Clean Rivers Program Assessment Basins Map (GIF) 1.5M
Methodology for Developing Land Cover Data (PDF) 624K
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Contact
If you have questions related to land cover data, please contact:
Community & Environmental Planning GIS
CEGIS@h-gac.com
(713) 627-3200
Bill Bass, Chief GIS Specialist
Lei Zhou, GIS Analyst
Preeti Khwaounjoo, GIS Analyst
Brooks Andrews, GIS Analyst
