GROUP: agroforestry (af)
DEFINITION: annual or perennial crops interplanted with non-agricultural
trees OR within cleared patches of Regrowth perennials. The integration
of agricultural and non-agricultural vegetation must be part of a long-term management
plan by the landowner/manager. Perennials must be planted in a continuous
regular planting pattern with spacing <5m apart and covering sufficient area
to map a soft feature (width >5 m AND area >100 m2) OR with >10%
vegetation cover, unless immature. Must identify USE = Rainfed
OR Irrigated, depending on the feature.
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Classification
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- Object
- deciduous forestry trees with annual crops
- evergreen forestry trees with annual crops
- tea interplanted with fir trees = fir trees planted within tea planting giving at least x% cover???
- generic tree crops within forestry tree plantings = uncommon TYPE not in classification).
- generic tree crops within cleared regrowth trees = uncommon TYPE not in classification.
- generic woody crops within forestry tree plantings = uncommon TYPE not in classification.
- generic woody crops within cleared regrowth trees = uncommon TYPE not in classification.
- shade coffee?
- shade cacao?
- tropical homegarden?
- shifting agriculture plots =
- Modifier 1
- immature = non-agricultural vegetation cover <10% AND/OR agricultural vegetation is immature.
- mature = agricultural vegetation cover >10% AND agricultural vegetation is mature.
- Scale
- small (<30m) areal
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha)
- large-scale (>1 ha)
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Key
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- deciduous forestry trees with annual crops
- immature
- small (<30m) areal = af01
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha) = af02
- large-scale (>1 ha) = af03
- mature
- small (<30m) areal = af04
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha) = af05
- large-scale (>1 ha) = af06
- evergreen forestry trees with annual crops
- immature
- small (<30m) areal = af07
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha) = af08
- large-scale (>1 ha) = af09
- mature
- small (<30m) areal = af10
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha) = af11
- large-scale (>1 ha) = af12
- evergreen forestry trees with annual crops
- small (<30m) areal = af13
- medium-scale (>30m to 1ha) = af014
- large-scale (>1 ha) = af15
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Dominance Rules
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- IF TYPE with greater vegetation cover area is very similar or otherwise unclear:
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Citation for AEM:
Ellis E. C., H. Wang, H. Xiao, K. Peng, X. P. Liu, S. C. Li, H.
Ouyang, X. Cheng, and L. Z. Yang. 2006. Measuring long-term ecological changes in
densely populated landscapes using current and historical high resolution imagery.
Remote Sensing of Environment
100(4):457-473.