Circa 1999 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Spatial Data - Landsat TM

Description

The dataset presented here represents a circa 1999 land/water delineation of coastal Louisiana used in part of a larger study to quantify landscape changes from 1932 to 2016. The dataset contains two categories, land and water. For the purposes of this effort, land includes areas characterized by emergent vegetation, upland, wetland forest, or scrub-shrub were classified as land, while open water, aquatic beds, and mudflats were classified as water. For additional information regarding this dataset, refer to USGS SIM 3381.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P99LJJZZ
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5be0a02fe4b0b3fc5cf33e8d.xml

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  • central-louisiana-coastal
  • wetland-loss
  • wetland-change
  • eastern-louisiana-coastal
  • west-central-louisiana-coastal
  • wetlands
  • louisiana
  • usgs-5be0a02fe4b0b3fc5cf33e8d
  • east-central-louisiana-coastal
  • wetland-gain
  • louisiana-coastal

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