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Poultry Feeding Operations on the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Peninsula from 2016 to 2017

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2016
Time Period
2017

Citation

Soroka, A.M., and Duren, Z., 2020, Poultry feeding operations on the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Peninsula from 2016 to 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MO25Z7.

Summary

Data release contains two shapefiles related to poultry houses on the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware, Eastern Shore Maryland and, Eastern Shore Virginia). One dataset is a polygon shapefile representing 6013 poultry houses identified using 2016 and 2017 aerial imagery from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Aerial Imagery Program (NAIP). The second dataset is a point shapefile of inactive houses which displayed similar characteristics to the active houses except were overgrown or in a state of disrepair (in some cases only the building's footprint remains).

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alexander M Soroka
Originator :
Alexander M Soroka, Zachary L Duren
Metadata Contact :
Alexander M Soroka
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Delmarva_PL_House_Final.zip 518.76 KB application/zip
Delmarva_retired_houses.zip 26.06 KB application/zip
Poultry house metadata final_to release.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		14.65 KB application/fgdc+xml

Purpose

Data were created to support avian epidemiology research by the USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies program to investigate disease transmission risk of migratory birds to farms. Poultry houses were mapped to learn about spatial house density across the peninsula, and poultry house proximity to ponds which migratory birds may use.

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  • USGS Chesapeake Bay
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  • USGS Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia Water Science Center

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9MO25Z7

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