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LC_Billerica_raster_v1
Land Cover (2005), Ipswich Watershed, Billerica, Massachusetts - Raster
Colin
Polsky
Florida Atlantic University
(954) 236-1104
cpolsky@fau.edu
http://www.ces.fau.edu/about/staff/polsky.php
Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Clark University-holmes
http://hero.clarku.edu/holmes/
Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
2012
English
This is a seven-category land-cover map of Billerica, Massachusetts. The seven categories are: bare soil, coniferous trees, decidous trees, grass, impervious surface, water, and wetlands.
Disturbance
Core Areas
geographic information systems
Ipswich River watershed
land cover
spatial methods
PIE LTER
Plum Island Ecosystems
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https://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/content/land-cover-2005-ipswich-watershed-billerica-massachusetts-raster
Geographic boundary box for the town of Billerica, Massachusetts
-71.333236694336
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42.613067626953
42.506301879883
2005-04-09
2005-04-17
This dataset informs research on suburbanization in a coastal watershed.
PIE LTER
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pie_im@mbl.edu
Colin
Polsky
Florida Atlantic University
(954) 236-1104
cpolsky@fau.edu
http://www.ces.fau.edu/about/staff/polsky.php
Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
http://pie-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu/
Plum Island Ecosystems
A fine-resolution land-cover mapping methodology to produce a complete study area map was adopted. The methodology used object-based image analysis (OBIA) remote sensing techniques to classify fine-spatial resolution aerial imagery into seven land-cover categories: bare soil, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, fine green grass, impervious surfaces, water, and wetlands. The imagery used in the classification was 0.5 m spatial resolution, 4-band (R,G,B,NIR) aerial photographs taken between 9 and 17 April 2005. Ancillary data included GIS layers of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wetlands and impervious surfaces. The aerial photography and ancillary data were obtained from MassGIS.
Information relevant to the GIS data encoding
This is a seven-category land-cover map of Billerica, Massachusetts. The seven categories are: bare soil, coniferous trees, decidous trees, grass, impervious surface, water, and wetlands.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 : 23664
Columns : 21051
Cell Geometry :pixel
LC_Billerica_raster_v1
This is a seven-category land-cover map of Billerica, Massachusetts. The seven categories are: bare soil, coniferous trees, decidous trees, grass, impervious surface, water, and wetlands.
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