Land cover map including wetlands and invasive Phragmites circa 2017 for Green Bay

Description

The first basin-wide map of large stands of invasive Phragmites australis (common reed) in the coastal zone was created through a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan Tech Research Institute (Bourgeau-Chavez et al 2013). This data set represents a revised version of that map and was created using multi-temporal PALSAR data and Landsat images from 2016-2017. In addition to Phragmites distribution, the data sets shows several land cover types including urban, agriculture, forest, shrub, emergent wetland, forested wetland, and some based on the dominant plant species (e.g., Schoenoplectus, Typha). The classified map was validated using over 400 field visits.This map covers the Green Bay peninsula and surrounding area on Lake Michigan.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5d0ce918e4b0941bde51dc97.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OX21T6

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  • usgs-5d0ce918e4b0941bde51dc97
  • invasive-species
  • lake-michigan
  • wetlands
  • land-use-and-land-cover
  • wisconsin
  • green-bay
  • imagerybasemapsearthcover

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