Description
Salt marshes of the Northeastern United States (Maine to Virginia) are vulnerable to loss given their history of intensive human alteration. One direct human modification – ditching – was common across the Northeast for salt hay farming since European Colonization and for mosquito control in the first half of the 20th century. We hand-digitized linear ditches across Northeastern intertidal emergent wetlands from contemporary aerial imagery within the bounds of the National Wetland Inventory's Estuarine Intertidal Emergent Wetland areas.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
Tags
- biota
- coastal-ecosystems
- coastal-processes
- connecticut
- delaware
- ecosystem-resilience
- geospatial-datasets
- maine
- marsh-health
- marsh-stress
- maryland
- massachusetts
- new-hampshire
- new-jersey
- new-york
- northeast-coast
- pennsylvania
- rhode-island
- salt-marsh
- united-states
- usgs-6633b8ead34ea70bd5f28fd1
- virginia
- vulnerability
- wetland-ecosystems
- wetland-functions