USGS Land Use/Land Cover, clipped to Colorado DWR Division 7

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Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 19860801
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: USGS Land Use/Land Cover, clipped to Colorado DWR Division 7
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This shapefile is derived from GIS data that was originally developed for Colorado's Western Slope in the mid-1990's as part of the CDSS project. Any subsequent data processing is described in the Data Quality Information section below. The release notes that were originally created for the data are as follows:

This directory contains the Arc/Info coverages populated for CRDSS as part of Task 1.06 and 2.03 Spatial Database Development for land use. The Land Use and Land Cover coverages are from the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (USGS).

The Land Use coverage describes political units, hydrologic units, census county sub-divisions, Federal land ownership, and State land ownership. The coverage is compiled to portray the Level II categories of the Land Use and Land Cover classification system documented by Anderson et al. (1976). The coverage portrays natural or administrative information. The sources of land use compilation are NASA high-altitude areal photographs.

Table 1: Geological Survey Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data

[ table of level I and level II code values moved to Entity Attribute section ]

For more information see:

USGS. US GeoData, Land Use and Land Cover Digital Data, Data User Guide 4. United State Department of the Interior. August 1986.

Contact: User Services Branch Earth Science Information Center US Geological Survey 507 National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 (703) 860-6065

1. This coverage describes the Land Use for the Western Slope of Colorado.

Purpose: Spatial data in support of the CDSS project.
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Postal_Code: 80203
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