Green infrastructure lands are characterized as those that provide infiltration, capture, and uptake of moisture and nutrients with the potential to retain more than they lose. COG’s Green Infrastructure Program examines regional green space and open space land cover types from urban pocket parks to urban agriculture; from small forest plots to large forestlands, meadow and farmland tracts.
The program produced the first comprehensive regional green infrastructure land cover maps in 2004 using 1999/2000 Landsat imagery. More recent products include high resolution land cover maps in 2013—using 2011 imagery for a subregion of the District of Columbia and suburban Maryland and Virginia—which demonstrate change in land cover over the eleven to twelve year period.
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August 8, 2007
As temperatures soar and dry conditions are forecasted to persist through August, area residents and businesses are being advised of the importance of water...
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October 18, 2006
Thousands of milk cartons will display water saving tips thanks to a new partnership between Giant Food and the region's Wise Water Use campaign.
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August 18, 2006
Frederick County Commissioner John R. Lovell, Jr. helps promote wise water during a Frederick Keys baseball game August 11.