| meta key # | modl010 |
| dataset or series of data | Multi-Resolution Land Characteristic (MRLC) land cover, Chesapeake Bay watershed |
| keywords | land cover, land characterization, Landsat |
| originator | U.S. Geological Survey & U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| file format | ARC/INFO grid |
| platform | Windows NT |
| study site locale | Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USA |
| beg. date (yyyymmdd) | acquired 199607 |
| 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; 16 land cover categories: nodata, water, high intensity developed, low intensity developed, grass, cropland, probable cropland, deciduous forest, evergreen forest, mixed forest, wooded wetland, emergent wetland, quarry, coal mine, beach , |
| current sharing status | publicly available at http://nsdi.epa.gov/nsdi/projects/r3_mrlc.html |
| current advertising status | advertised by originator |
| abstract | The MRLC Land Cover GRID is a classified mosaic of Landsat TM data generated by the multi-resolution landscape characterization project. Source TM scenes range from March of 1986 through September, 1994 with the majority of the imagery produced in the 1991 - 1994 time frame. |
| additional documentation / reference article | http://nsdi.epa.gov/nsdi/projects/r3_mrlc.html http://www.epa.gov/mrlc/R3.html |