| meta key # | modl009 |
| dataset or series of data | Coastwatch Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) land cover, Chesapeake Bay watershed |
| keywords | land cover, coast, habitat change, monitoring, LandSat |
| originator | NOAA C-CAP |
| file format | ARC/INFO grid |
| platform | Windows NT |
| study site locale | Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USA |
| beg. date (yyyymmdd) | acquired 199307 |
| ongoing? | no |
| end date (yyyymmdd) | |
| meas. freq. | |
| site size | 30 m2 pixels |
| # of stations | |
| west long. | -80.633 |
| east long. | -74.58 |
| north lat. | 43.055 |
| south lat. | 36.602 |
| parameters | landcover class; 15 land cover categories: nodata, high intensity developed, low intensity developed, cropland, grassland, deciduous forest, evergreen forest, mixed forest, shrubs, forested palustrine wetland, estuarine wetland, tidal flats, exposed land |
| current sharing status | publicly available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/NODC-cdrom.html#ccap http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/CDR-detdesc/ccapgoph.html |
| current advertising status | advertised by originator |
| abstract | The NOAA Coastal Ocean Program's Coastal-Change Analysis Program (C-CAP), is developing tools to monitor and understand changes in wetland and adjacent uplands and to relate these impacts to living marine resources. C-CAP has mapped these areas in Chesapeake Bay and its watershed using Landsat satellite imagery for detection of emergent wetlands and uplands, and aerial photography for detection of submerged aquatic vegetation. Land cover was classified form Landsat Thematic Mapper scenes for two time periods: 1984 and 1998-1989. [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ccap/text/chesapeake.html] |
| additional documentation / reference article | http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ccap/ http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ccap/text/chesapeake_88_89.html http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ccap/text/publications.html C-CAP. 1992. CoastWatch Change Analysis Project (C-CAP): Chesapeake Bay land cover classification data, 1984 and 198 |