Data release for the Land Change Causes for the United States Interior Highlands (2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011 time intervals)

These data were created to describe the causes of land cover change that occurred in the Interior Highland region of the United States for the time intervals of 2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011. This region, which covers approximately 17.5 million hectares, includes portions of the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most of the area is covered by gently rolling hills of forests and pastureland. Two raster maps were created at a 30-meter resolution showing the causes of land change using automated and manual photo interpretation techniques. There were 30 categories of land change causes (i.e., forest harvest or surficial mining) discovered over the Interior Highlands. These categories can be used...

Tags: Ecology, Geography, Interior Highlands, Land Use Change, Ozarks, All tags... Remote Sensing, Springfield, Missouri, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), ecoregion 36, ecoregion 37, ecoregion 38, ecoregion 39, historical land change, land change causes, land cover, land cover change, land transformations, land use, land use change, northern Arkansas, south central United States, southeast Oklahoma, southern Missouri, urban land change, Fewer tags

Data release for the Historical land use and land cover for assessing the northern Colorado Front Range urban landscape

The dataset was generated to describe historical land-use and land-cover (LULC)for the northern Colorado urban Front Range (which includes the cities of Boulder, Fort Collins, Greeley, and Denver) for an area covering approximately 1,023,660 hectares. The Front Range urban landscape is diverse and interspersed with highly productive agriculture as well as natural land cover types including evergreen forest in the Rocky Mountain foothills and Great Plains grassland. To understand the dynamics of urban growth, raster maps were created at a 1-meter resolution for each of four time steps, nominally 1937, 1957, 1977, and 1997. In total, 8 to 38 LULC classes were identified using manual interpretation techniques, aerial...

Tags: Denver, Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado, Geography, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... front range, historical land cover, land change, land cover, land cover change, land transformations, land use, land use change, northern Colorado, northern Colorado Front Range, urban land change, west central US, west central United States, Fewer tags

Data release for land-use and land-cover change in the Lower Rio Grande ecoregions, Texas (2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011 time intervals)

These data were created to describe the causes of land cover change that occurred in the Lower Rio Grande (LRG) Valley and Alluvial Floodplain ecoregions of Texas for the time intervals of 2001 to 2006 and 2006 to 2011. The study area covers approximately 600,000 hectares at the southernmost tip of Texas and is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States. Some of the largest cities in the area include Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas. Two raster maps showing the causes of land change were created at a 30-meter resolution using automated and manual photo interpretation techniques. There were 26 categories of land change causes (for example, urban expansion or surficial mining) identified across the LRG...

Categories: Data; Tags: LRG, Land Use Change, Lower Rio Grande, Lower Rio Grande Alluvial Floodplain, Lower Rio Grande Valley, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western Gulf Coastal Plain, ecoregion 34e, ecoregion 34ef, ecoregion 34f, historical land change, land change, land cover, land cover change, land transformations, land use, land use change, south central United States, southern Texas, urban land change, Fewer tags