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  2. U.S. Conterminous Wall-to-Wall Anthropogenic Land Use Trends (NWALT), 1974-2012

U.S. Conterminous Wall-to-Wall Anthropogenic Land Use Trends (NWALT), 1974-2012

Dates

Release Date
2015-01-01
Start Date
1974
End Date
2012
Publication Date

Citation

Falcone, J., 2015, U.S. Conterminous Wall-to-Wall Anthropogenic Land Use Trends (NWALT), 1974-2012: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XJKKC3.

Summary

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This dataset provides a U.S. national 60-m, 19-class mapping of anthropogenic land uses for five time periods: 1974-1982-1992-2002-2012. The 2012 dataset is based on a slightly modified version of the National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011) that was recoded to a schema of land uses, and mapped back in time to develop datasets for the four earlier eras. The time periods coincide with years in which U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census of [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division
Originator :
James Falcone
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Earth System Processes Division
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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ds948_NWALT.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		46.81 KB application/fgdc+xml
ds948_small_sample_midatlantic_050815.zip 13.66 MB application/zip
ds948_landuse1974.zip 218.26 MB application/zip
national_timber_1999-2012_may15_2015.zip 133.03 MB application/zip
ds948.jpg thumbnail 102.2 KB image/jpeg
ds948_landuse2012.zip 218.68 MB application/zip
ds948_landuse1982.zip 219.5 MB application/zip
ds948_landuse1992.zip 219.11 MB application/zip
ds948_landuse2002.zip 217.98 MB application/zip

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to serve as a consistent land use map product for five time periods between 1974 and 2012 for the conterminous U.S. The goal was to create a product which is (a) as consistent as possible with the NLCD 2001-2011 series, (b) agrees with other key data sources such as census-derived information, (c) uses a consistent method for all years, and (d) represents land use as accurately as possible. The focus of the product is to capture major land use trends.
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Provenance

These data were originally released on the Water Mission Area National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node and were migrated to sciencebase.gov in 2023. These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS's policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9XJKKC3

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