Mapping NJ Farmland

Expertise provided to Rowan Geospatial Research Laboratory's project to assist the NJ-SADC (State Agriculture Development Committee) in updating farmland usage map data throughout the state of New Jersey as assist in the project's long term goal of accurately mapping all 2000+ of New Jersey's farms.
Contributions to this project included: interpretation of true color and infrared aerial imagery of NJ, production and/or updating of topology features, attribution information (acreage, land cover type, yield, etc.), and printed & digital map production.

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Before and after. Using ArcMap to add and edit topology bringing 2007 maps up to date.

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Extensive and detailed updates were necessary for most farms.

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The feature classes used to map the farmland.

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Features such as streams and dirt roads are more easily defined under infrared imagery.

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Extracting a previously unmapped farm, before (top) and after (bottom).