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Onshore Industrial Wind Turbine Locations for the United States through July 2013

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Start Date
1981
End Date
2013
Release Date
2014-02
Publication Date

Citation

Diffendorfer, J.E., Compton, Roger, Kramer, L.A., Ancona, Zach, and Norton, Donna, 2014, Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States through July 2013: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7X06561.

Summary

This data set provides industrial-scale onshore wind turbine locations in the United States through July 22, 2013, corresponding facility information, and turbine technical specifications. The database has more than 47,000 wind turbine records that have been collected, digitized, locationally verified, and internally quality controlled. Turbines from the Federal Aviation Administration Digital Obstacle File, through product release date July 22, 2013, were used as the primary source of turbine data points. Verification of the turbine positions was done by visual interpretation using high-resolution aerial imagery in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop. Turbines without Federal Aviation Administration Obstacle Repository System numbers were visually [...]

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USGS_windturbine_201307_FGDC.xml
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Purpose

The purpose of this information is to provide a publicly available spatially-referenced, national dataset of onshore industrial wind turbine locations and their technical specifications.

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