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Regional Data: San Francisco Bay Area, California, Land Cover Change

Period

1986 – 1993

Land cover map of the San Fransisco Bay area

Description

The change detection was conducted with Landsat TM imagery (Path 44, Row 34) that includes all of San Francisco Bay and is bordered by the Point Reyes National Seashore to the north and Monterey to the south, including the Elkhorn Slough watershed. The Elkhorn Slough, the second largest estuary in California, is located within the boundaries of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and is also the location of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR).

A descriptive summary of this data set is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). The summary includes a report of the dominant land cover changes, tabular summaries of the 1986 and 1993 land cover data sets, and a change matrix (or tabular summary) for the 1986-1993 change data set.

View or download the Descriptive Summary (approximately 0.113 megabytes).

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For more information on this project, see the Land Cover Changes in the San Francisco Bay and Elkhorne Slough Areas of California: 1986-1993 CD-ROM.

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