The USGS’s FORE-SCE model was used to produce land-use and land-cover (LULC) projections for the conterminous United States. The projections were originally created as part of the "LandCarbon" project, an effort to understand biological carbon sequestration potential in the United States. However, the projections are being used for a wide variety of purposes, including analyses of the effects of landscape change on biodiversity, water quality, and regional weather and climate. The year 1992 served as the baseline for the landscape modeling. The 1992 to 2005 period was considered the historical baseline, with datasets such as the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), USGS Land Cover Trends, and US Department of Agriculture's...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: CONUS,
CONUS,
Conterminous,
Conterminous United States,
FORE-SCE, All tags...
IPCC,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Land Cover,
Land Use,
Land Use Change,
Lower 48,
Model,
SRES,
Scenario,
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios,
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States, Fewer tags
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