Ag Land Cover Data Prep

[Liliana Bettolo]

Hello! 

My research project requires I change field level management routines for corn fields within my watershed. I have two land cover datasets:

2022 NLCD land cover for the continuous US at 30 meter resolution: https://www.mrlc.gov/viewer/ 

2022 VT land cover agriculture for Vermont at 0.5 meter resolution, land cover is broken out to Corn, Hay, and Pasture: https://vcgi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=b9ca8d5d64814407b1f137e2a8716da3 

I took the steps of resampling both to 10 meter resolution then combined prioritizing the Vermont layer. There is still a significant amount of acres where classified as 81 Pasture/Hay and 82 Cultivated Crops. My initial thought was to remove those and the areas where there is no data resample to nearest neighbor or use focal statistics, but the gaps may be too big and I feel uncertain. 

Has anyone explored this before or have any advice/considerations?

Thank you for the help!