Description
The Riparian Zone Mask represents surface water in the United States and its estimated riparian zone. These areas were determined using grid analysis of an approximate 100 meter buffer placed around the combined surface water features of the 2019 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) produced by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium and the 1:100,000 scale National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Plus version 2.1. Features from NLCD included are 'Open Water' (code 11), 'Woody Wetlands' (code 90) and 'Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands' (code 95). The combination of these two datasets and all cells with a distance of 108 meters or less from surface water are included in the Riparian Zone (RZ). This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to the Watershed Index Online (WSIO) and EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download | JSON | The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. | Open resource |
| Documentation | Unknown | URL for accessing related documents such as data dictionary, technical information about a dataset, developer documentation, etc. | Open resource |
| API | Unknown | The endpoint of a web service to access the dataset (REST endpoint, WMS GetCapabilities URL, or a SOAP WSDL endpoint). | Open resource |
Tags
- alabama
- arizona
- arkansas
- california
- colorado
- connecticut
- delaware
- ecosystem
- ecosystem services
- enviroatlas
- environment
- environmental atlas
- florida
- georgia
- idaho
- illinois
- indiana
- iowa
- kansas
- kentucky
- land cover
- louisiana
- maine
- management
- maryland
- massachusetts
- michigan
- minnesota
- mississippi
- missouri
- montana
- nebraska
- nevada
- new hampshire
- new jersey
- new mexico
- new york
- north carolina
- north dakota
- ohio
- oklahoma
- oregon
- pennsylvania
- rhode island
- riparian
- south carolina
- south dakota
- surface water
- tennessee
- texas
- united states
- utah
- vermont
- virginia
- washington
- washington dc
- water
- west virginia
- wetlands
- wisconsin
- wyoming