This USGS Data Release represents geospatial and tabular data for the Nisqually River Delta historical habitat mapping. The data release was produced in compliance with the new 'open data' requirements as a way to make the scientific products associated with USGS research efforts and publications available to the public.
The dataset consists of 9 separate items:
1. Forest Change (raster dataset)
2. Forest Type Change (raster dataset)
3. Functional Pathway Change (raster dataset)
4. 1957 Habitat Map (raster dataset)
5. 1980 Habitat Map (raster dataset)
6. 2015 Habitat Map (raster dataset)
7. 1980 Species Map (raster dataset)
8. 2015 Species Map (raster dataset)
9. Wetland Change (raster dataset)
These data support the following publication:
Ballanti, L., Byrd, K.B., Woo, I., and Ellings, C., 2017, Remote Sensing for Wetland Mapping and Historical Change Detection at the Nisqually River Delta: Sustainability, v. 9, no. 11, p. 1919, https://doi.org/10.3390/su9111919.
