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Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

Other Subject Keywords

wetland loss, wetland change, wetland gain, wetlands

Place Keywords

West Central Louisiana Coastal, Louisiana Coastal, Central Louisiana Coastal, Eastern Louisiana Coastal, East Central Louisiana Coastal, Louisiana

Circa 1975 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Spatial Data - Landsat MSS

The dataset presented here represents a circa 1975 land/water delineation of coastal Louisiana used in part of a larger study to quantify landscape changes from 1932 to 2016. 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, refer to USGS SIM 3381.

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Author(s) Brady Couvillion orcid
Publication Date 2018
Beginning Date of Data 1975
Ending Date of Data 1975
Data Contact
Brady Couvillion
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P99LJJZZ
Citation Couvillion, B., 2018, Circa 1975 Land Area in Coastal Louisiana - Spatial Data - Landsat MSS: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99LJJZZ.
Metadata Contact
Brady Couvillion
Metadata Date 2020-08-30
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