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False-color composite of Landsat data for the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system project, Nevada and California

Dates

Release Date
2006-01-01
Publication Date

Citation

Faunt, C.C., 2006, False-color composite of Landsat data for the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system project, Nevada and California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FKM2A2.

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 release supersedes False-color composite of Landsat data for the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system project, Nevada and California (also available at https://doi.org/10.5066/p9m8nbrn) The false-color composite image of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), an approximately 100,000 square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California, was derived from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) data for 1996. The [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Claudia Faunt
Originator :
Faunt, Claudia C.
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Purpose

The Landsat 5 false-color composite image of the DVRFS was used as a reference map for planning and conducting field reconnaissance work within the DVRS study area. The image was also shown as a reference layer in maps developed for the DVRFS project.
Illlustration of data set
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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/P9FKM2A2

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