Land cover trends dataset, 1973-2000

Christopher E. Soulard; William Acevedo; Roger F. Auch; Terry L. Sohl; Mark A. Drummond; Benjamin M. Sleeter; Daniel G. Sorenson; Steven Kambly; Tamara S. Wilson; Janis L. Taylor; Kristi Sayler; Michael P. Stier; Christopher A. Barnes; Steven C. Methven; Thomas R. Loveland; Rachel Headley; Mark S. Brooks

doi:10.3133/ds844

Land cover trends dataset, 1973-2000

Data Series 844

By: Christopher E. Soulard, William Acevedo, Roger F. Auch, Terry L. Sohl, Mark A. Drummond, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Daniel G. Sorenson, Steven Kambly, Tamara S. Wilson, Janis L. Taylor, Kristi Sayler, Michael P. Stier, Christopher A. Barnes, Steven C. Methven, Thomas R. Loveland, Rachel Headley, and Mark S. Brooks

https://doi.org/10.3133/ds844

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Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey Land Cover Trends Project is releasing a 1973–2000 time-series land-use/land-cover dataset for the conterminous United States. The dataset contains 5 dates of land-use/land-cover data for 2,688 sample blocks randomly selected within 84 ecological regions. The nominal dates of the land-use/land-cover maps are 1973, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 2000. The land-use/land-cover maps were classified manually from Landsat Multispectral Scanner, Thematic Mapper, and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus imagery using a modified Anderson Level I classification scheme. The resulting land-use/land-cover data has a 60-meter resolution and the projection is set to Albers Equal-Area Conic, North American Datum of 1983. The files are labeled using a standard file naming convention that contains the number of the ecoregion, sample block, and Landsat year. The downloadable files are organized by ecoregion, and are available in the ERDAS IMAGINE^TM (.img) raster file format.

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Additional publication details
Publication type	Report
Publication Subtype	USGS Numbered Series
Title	Land cover trends dataset, 1973-2000
Series title	Data Series
Series number	844
DOI	10.3133/ds844
Year Published	2014
Language	English
Publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location	Reston, VA
Contributing office(s)	Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Western Geographic Science Center
Description	Report: v, 10 p.; National data
Country	United States
Projection	Albers Equal-Area Conic projection
Online Only (Y/N)	Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N)	Y
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