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USGS Thesaurus Keywords

inlandWaters, LUDA, urban land use, GIRAS, land cover, urbanization, 1990 population, residential land use, LULC, Land Use Data Analysis, land use, Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System, Anderson land use/land cover

ISO 19115 Topic Category

inlandWaters, environment, geoscientificInformation

Place Keywords

Conterminous United States

1970's Land use data refined with 1990 population data to indicate new residential development for the conterminous United States

This data set represents U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) historical Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) from the 1970's that has been refined with 1990 population density at the block group level to indicate new residential development representative of the 1990's. Any area having a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile had been re-classified as "urban" land in this data set.

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Author(s)	United States Geological
Publication Date	2005-03-15
Beginning Date of Data	1991
Ending Date of Data	1999
Data Contact	Water Mission Area
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XAUZJY
Citation	Geological, U.S., 2005, 1970's Land use data refined with 1990 population data to indicate new residential development for the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XAUZJY.
Metadata Contact	Water Mission Area
Metadata Date	2020-11-17
Related Publication	There was no related primary publication associated with this data release.
Citations of these data	No citations of these data are known at this time.
Access	public
License	http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

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