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Circa 1932 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Original Data Source Corps of Engineers - Revisions to geo-rectification

The dataset presented here represents a circa 1932 land/water delineation of coastal Louisiana used in part of a larger study to quantify landscape changes from 1932 to 2016. The original dataset was created by Dunbar, and Britsch, and Kemp (2006). The original dataset is citable as: Dunbar, J. B. and Britsch, L. D., 2006. Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana 1932-2001. Map 1. Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, Technical Report, ERDC/GSL TR-05-13, Land Loss Map 1 through 7. The USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center altered the original data by improving the geo-rectification in specific areas known to contain geo-rectification error, most notably in coastal wetland areas in the vicinity of Four League Bay in western Terrebonne Basin. The dataset contains two categories, land and water. For the purposes of this effort, land includes areas characterized by emergent vegetation, upland, wetland forest, or scrub-shrub were classified as land, while open water, aquatic beds, and mudflats were classified as water. For additional information regarding this dataset (other than geo-rectification revisions), please contact the dataset originator, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

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Author(s) Brady Couvillion orcid
Publication Date 2018
Beginning Date of Data 1930
Ending Date of Data 1939
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P99LJJZZ
Citation Couvillion, B., 2018, Circa 1932 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Original Data Source Corps of Engineers - Revisions to geo-rectification: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99LJJZZ.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-30
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