| meta key # | modl004 |
| dataset or series of data | land use for Cocalico basin, PA, study watersheds |
| keywords | land use, agriculture, Pennsylvania, Lancaster |
| originator | Weller, D.E. |
| file format | ARC/INFO polygon coverage |
| platform | Windows NT |
| study site locale | Cocalico Creek watershed, Lancaster county, PA, USA |
| beg. date (yyyymmdd) | 1997 |
| ongoing? | no |
| end date (yyyymmdd) | 1997 |
| meas. freq. | once |
| site size | 80973 ha |
| # of stations | 2838 polygons |
| west long. | -79.785 |
| east long. | -79.588 |
| north lat. | 49.304 |
| south lat. | 49.229 |
| parameters | area, perimeter, land use#, land use-id, croptype, land use; 14 land use categories: commercial, industrial, road, crops, orchard, feedlot/poultry house, pasture, hayfield, forest, brush, old field, water, quarry |
| current sharing status | available to collaborators |
| current advertising status | scientific publication, SERC web site |
| abstract | Land use for NSF study watersheds in Lancaster and Lebanon counties, PA, sampled with automated stream samplers and spot sampling. Lancaster Co. GIS department provided an ARC/INFO coverage of land use patches digitized from their own March 1993 digital orthophotography. We used 1993 USGS b/w digital orthophotographs to add lines dividing agricultural land into land use patches and to extend the coverage to include watersheds in Lebanon Co. Classifications were field verified in September 1997. Crop and animal types were also recorded for agricultural patches. |
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