This layer shows land use for the Ipswich Study area, based upon MassGIS classification and grouped in accordance with the Anderson: Level I convention. It is intended to be used in connection with other Ipswich Study Area maps.
Ipswich Land use files from Mass GIS were reclassed with the following convention:
new value - from - to just less than
1 6 9
1 10 14
1 15 20
1 24 25
1 26 27
1 31 35
2 21 22
2 23 24
2 35 37
2 1 2
3 2 3
4 3 4
4 37 38
5 20 21
5 30 31
6 4 5
6 14 15
6 27 29
7 5 6
7 9 10
7 25 26
7 29 30
Process_Date: November 6, 2002
Information relevant to the GIS data encoding
This layer shows land use for the Ipswich Study area, based upon MassGIS classification and grouped in accordance with the Anderson: Level I convention.Horizontal Coordinate System Name:NAD 1983 StatePlane Massachusetts Mainland FIPS 2001
Datum: D North American 1983
Reference Ellipsoid: Name: GRS 1980 Semi Axis: 6378137.0
Meridian: Greenwich
Projection Name : Lambert Conformal Conic
Number of bands : 1
Raster Origin : Lower Left
Rows : 1152
Columns : 1692
Cell Geometry :pixel
Maintenance:
Progress: Complete. Maintenance and Update Frequency: As needed. Edition: 1st
Metadata converted from MSWord documentation on 1.15.2013 by M. Hayn using "PIE_WordMetaConvert" package developed for conversion of data to EML 2.1.0 in R environment.
8/1/2019 corrected lat/long inversion for Ipswich Watershed boundary box