Land Use Land Cover for Selected Basins in Clarksburg, Montgomery County, MD

Description

This dataset contains digitized land use/land cover (LULC) for the years 2011, 2015, and 2017. The dataset contains 1-meter resolution raster maps for each year covering the geographic area for six watersheds within and near the Clarksburg Special Protection Area located in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. The area includes LULC within 500-foot buffered watersheds. Watershed boundaries for Cabin Branch (CB), Crystal Rock (CR), Soper Branch (SB), Tributary 104 (T104), and Tributary 109 (T109) were derived using USGS topographic maps (1:24,000-scale) while Ten Mile Creek (TMC) was derived using Montgomery County, Maryland LiDAR data (1-meter resolution). LULC classes include a water class (10), impervious surface class (20), barren class (30), forest class (40), grass class (70), and agriculture class (80).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RR4M0B
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5d31bb1ee4b01d82ce86788e.xml

Tags

  • montgomery-county
  • land-use-change
  • usgs-5d31bb1ee4b01d82ce86788e
  • impervious-surfaces
  • human-impacts
  • urban
  • urbanization
  • maryland
  • clarksburg
  • land-use-and-land-cover
  • germantown

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