The PALSAR 50 m forest cover map, MODIS-based forest types and rubber plantation maps are fused to generate fractional maps of evergreen forest, deciduous forest and rubber plantation within 500 m or 250 m pixels.
The areas of the different habitat types were calculated with Geographic Information System (GIS) software, except the areas planted between mid-2003 and the end of 2006 which were directly obtained from plantation company maps.
Subsequently, forest areas are classified into evergreen and deciduous forests and rubber plantations are mapped using vegetation and land surface water indices derived from 250 to 500 m resolution MODIS products.
Areas with high potential for plantation establishment, were mapped and compared with the District Plans to determine whether plantations could be established under the restrictions of the RMA.
At the northern end of Sheriff's Highway there is a dene, shown as the "Quarry Plantation" on Ordnance Survey maps of 1858.
The following year, Beverley and the other participants in the Fairfax Line expedition reconvened at Jefferson's Tuckahoe plantation to draft a map of the Northern Neck Proprietary boundaries, later known as the "Fry-Jefferson map".
Much discussion has gone into these issues, at Camp David, in the Clinton Parameters, at Taba and the Wye Plantation, in the Road Map, at Annapolis.
At the end of Edward P. Jones's stunning new antebellum novel, an artist recreates the book's plantation setting as "a map of life made with every kind of life man has ever thought to represent himself".
Since then, Ms. Hambrick has assembled a collection that combines everything from shackles and plantation tools with antebellum maps and deeds from slave auctions.
Toni Carpenter, the founder of Lowcountry Africana, a group that documents black history in the South, said an 1851 map of the plantation showed the cabin at its present site.
