Surface Disturbance Footprint from Development for the Western United States

Description

The surface disturbance footprint raster data set quantifies the percent surface disturbance from development at a 90-meter resolution. The surface disturbance footprint is used to compute a multiscale index of landscape intactness for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) landscape approach. The surface disturbance footprint is mapped for the western United States (17 states), by compiling and combining spatial data for four development disturbance variable classes. Development classes include urban land cover (impervious surface), agriculture (cropland), energy and mineral extraction and transport (oil and gas wells, solar arrays, wind turbines, surface mines, pipelines, and transmission lines), and transportation (roads, railroads).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F75H7DCW
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.57f2b772e4b0bc0bec005744.xml

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  • environment
  • western-united-states
  • montana
  • utah
  • colorado
  • idaho
  • urban-development
  • development
  • agriculture
  • transportation
  • wyoming
  • south-dakota
  • mineral-resources
  • kansas
  • texas
  • natural-resource-management
  • ecological-processes
  • california
  • surface-disturbance-footprint
  • arizona
  • environmental-assessment
  • washington
  • land-use-and-land-cover
  • oklahoma
  • north-dakota
  • usgs-57f2b772e4b0bc0bec005744
  • new-mexico
  • energy-resources
  • oregon
  • nevada
  • nebraska

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