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Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets of the U.S. Geological Survey: polygon format files

Dates

Release Date
2007-04-01
Start Date
1970
End Date
1985
Publication Date

Citation

Price, C.V., Nakagaki, N., Hitt, K.J., and Clawges, R.M., 2007, Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets of the U.S. Geological Survey: polygon format files: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MZNC5O.

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 data set depicts land use and land cover from the 1970s and 1980s and has been previously published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in other file formats. This version has been reformatted to other file formats and includes minor edits applied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and USGS scientists. This data set was developed to meet the needs of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Dakota Water Science Center
Process Contact :
Edward Partington, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
Curtis V. Price, Naomi Nakagaki, Kerie J. Hitt, Rick M. Clawges
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Dakota Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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ds240_landuse_poly.xml
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Purpose

Land-use and land-cover data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey are useful for environmental assessment of land-use patterns with respect to water-quality analysis, growth management, and other types of environmental impact assessment. The data are meant to be normally used by quadrangle, or among adjacent quadrangles where temporally contiguous. The data can be used in any geographic application where intermediate scale land-use data are appropriate and the source land-cover map dates are representative of the time period of interest.
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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/P9MZNC5O

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