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Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component (BA-0207): 2021 land-water classification

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2021-11-16

Citation

Beck, H.J., and Dugas, J., 2024, Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component (BA-0207): 2021 land-water classification: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13BDIN2.

Summary

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) develop restoration plans in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Large-Scale Marsh Creation Project – Upper Barataria Component Restoration (BA-0207) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Holly J Beck
Originator :
Holly J Beck, Jason Dugas
Metadata Contact :
Holly J Beck
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

The intended use of this data set is to provide information to aid efforts in the conservation, restoration, creation and enhancement of Louisiana's coastal wetlands in order to aid in long-term solutions to these and other problems.

Rights

This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P13BDIN2

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