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Land cover classification data for wetland complexes at Dixie Meadows, Nevada from October 2015 to January 2022

These data were compiled to provide satellite remote sensing observations of landcover in the vicinity of wetlands fed by geothermal springs in Dixie Meadows, Nevada, USA. Objectives of the study were to map landcover of water, vegetation, and soil between October 5, 2015, and January 21, 2022, using available imagery from the Sentinel-2 mission. The U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) and Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) processed 110 Sentinel-2 satellite images representing bottom of atmosphere surface reflectance and classified them within Google Earth Engine (GEE) using threshold values of the Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (gNDVI) and its inverse relationship to the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI). The classified image data represent the area covered by five distinct landcover types: open water; mixed shallow surface water, saturated soil, and vegetation; dense green vegetation; moist soil with sparse or small vegetation; dry soil with sparse upland vegetation. These data can be used to evaluate the areal extent of each of the landcover types classified in this study as well as changes in the areal extent of these landcover types between October 5, 2015, and January 21, 2022. Additionally, these data may be used as baseline conditions to evaluate future changes in the areal extent of landcover owing to land use changes or climatic fluctuations.

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Author(s) Nathaniel D Bransky, Joshua J Caster, Joel B Sankey orcid
Publication Date 2023
Beginning Date of Data 2015
Ending Date of Data 2022
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P90U1VAM
Citation Bransky, N.D., Caster, J.J., and Sankey, J.B., 2023, Land cover classification data for wetland complexes at Dixie Meadows, Nevada from October 2015 to January 2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90U1VAM.
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Metadata Date 2024-12-30
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