Poultry Feeding Operations on the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Peninsula from 2016 to 2017

Description

Data release contains two shapefiles related to poultry houses on the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware, Eastern Shore Maryland and, Eastern Shore Virginia). One dataset is a polygon shapefile representing 6013 poultry houses identified using 2016 and 2017 aerial imagery from the U.S. Department of Agricultures National Aerial Imagery Program (NAIP). The second dataset is a point shapefile of inactive houses which displayed similar characteristics to the active houses except were overgrown or in a state of disrepair (in some cases only the building's footprint remains).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MO25Z7
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5e0a3fcde4b0b207aa0d794e.xml

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  • usgs-5e0a3fcde4b0b207aa0d794e
  • chesapeake-bay
  • delaware
  • poultry
  • poultry-houses
  • virginia
  • cafo
  • maryland
  • eastern-shore-maryland
  • chicken
  • inlandwaters
  • delmarva
  • eastern-shore-virginia
  • farming

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