Datasets / Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets of the U.S. Geological Survey: polygon format files


Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets of the U.S. Geological Survey: polygon format files

Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

Issued about 9 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This data set depicts land use and land cover from the 1970s and 1980s and has been previously published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in other file formats. This version has been reformatted to other file formats and includes minor edits applied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and USGS scientists. This data set was developed to meet the needs of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.